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Word: met (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Full Stop. A few hours later the storm burst at a secret session of the Council. Senhor Afranio Mello Franco announced his original stand once more and clung to it. An informal caucus of the delegates of nine Latin American nations twice met and twice repudiated the declaration of Senhor Franco that Brazil was only holding firm in the interest of all Latin America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Hazardous Postponement | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

From that time on the general staffs of the two armies met every year. In 1912 Marshal Joffre declared that France had 1,300,000 men ready for instant mobilization. During the next two years frequent secret dispatches were exchanged between Paris and St. Petersburg which have been recently brought to light. These show beyond the shadow of a doubt that these countries were intentionally leading up to a war with Germany. With Great Britain, who had joined them through a fear of Germany's growing power, France and Russia knew that they had Germany in a net from which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMERICA WILL JOIN THE LEAGUE DECLARES OWEN | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

...aside from the natural beauties--all scenic, is character or local color. Foremost in giving Charlotte its fame is a gentleman, called by the more jocose, Gawdammit, mainly because of his continuous invocations to that deity in the course of his conversation. I remember one summer evening when I met him in front of Breezy Point Library, a euphemism, where there was an entertainment. Said Gawdammit, "Thar be a big crowd here tonight -- -- -- yes sir. Had I a known about it I'd has brought the old woman over for a time, yes sir, Godammit...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 3/27/1926 | See Source »

While two University crews had their first workouts in shells yesterday afternoon, the first 150-pound boat met with the initial mishap of the 1926 season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRST CREW ROWS IN ONE SHELL AS ICE CAKE WRECKS ANOTHER | 3/24/1926 | See Source »

When the Evening World's first treasure hunt edition sizzled off the presses, it was met in the street by an eager throng of typists, bank-runners, cigar clerks and jobless wanderers, whose curiosity and appetite for adventure were whetted still keener by a very actual lust for booty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspaperman | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

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