Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They were faced by a creditor who acknowledged that there were moral reasons for mitigating the debt. Arrangements were worked out on this basis. The French came exclaiming "We are poor! Oh, so poor, hélas!" and were intent on driving a bargain on semi-bankruptcy terms. They met a bargaining creditor and went home without result. But the Italians came and laid their cards on the table-or at least gave that impression. They said, "We are hard up. Here's an exact statement of our financial position. Let's work out a practical agreement...
There are people who declare that "Protestant" and "Catholic" are terms used to distinguish alien faiths, and if they breed at all, their child must be a sterile creature, without pride of parentage or hope of progeny. Yet in New Haven last week met a body of venerable prelates who boldly assert that they are not Protestants, although they refuse to recognize that the Pope is anything more than a pompous sort of Bishop; who quietly deny that they are Roman Catholics, although they use in their worship all the ancient magnificence of phrase, splendors of scarlet and black...
...Capablanca, chess champion of the world, arrived at Moscow. It was reported that (he Soviet Government had enticed him thither with much spot cash gold. There came also Dr. Emanuel Lasker (Germany) former world champion; Frank J. Marshall, U. S. Champion, and E. D. Bogoljubow (Ukrainia). They were met by 30 Russian chess players. After entertainments worthy of Lucullus, all sat down to play off the first international chess match to be held in Russia since the fall of Tsardom...
...immortal novelist who once aroused censure and reproach in the United States for drawing American character with too great exactitude in "Martin Chuzzlewit" has met a similar fate in England. In the Yarmouth town council, it was proposed to name certain highways, Copperfield Avenue, Steerforth Avenue. Peggoty Road, and Barkis Road. One of the more stalwart of the councillors, Jack Salmon, fish salesman by trade, condemned Barkis as a "silly old pup" and a "drunken rascal with a red nose". He spared Steerforth his denunciation only because he did not know the gentleman's reputation...
...Yale Freshmen have had a very successful season, but met their first defeat last Saturday at the hands of the Princeton 1929 eleven. In the game with the Tiger the breaks were all against Yale and contributed materially to the Princeton Freshmen's 14 to 0 victory...