Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...back from Omaha, the President was up and had breakfasted by 6:30, when his train drew into St. Louis. Mrs. Coolidge and he were met by Luther E. Smith, an Amherst classmate, Mayor Miller and Representative Dyer (sponsor of the Anti-Lynching Bill) and driven through St. Louis parks, stopping at the zoo, where the President got down to look at the bears. An hour later the Presidential train was on its way eastward once more...
...Met Dartmouth On Wednesday...
Harvard is fortunate in having many tutors who perform their true function, and to them is due the splendid success and almost universal approval the tutorial system has met with among students. But so long as a single tutor remains content to regard himself as one in kind with the hirelings of tutoring schools, the tutorial system at Harvard will fall short of its fullest service as an instrument in education; and the majority of unfortunates who go to such a tutor will continue to regard the divisional examinations as an added hurdle to be got over...
...Manhattan, they came from half the world around, a brood of nearly 400, from 41 countries, for the 23rd meeting of the Interparliamentary Union. They came in high ships up the harbor and debarked along the drab waterfront, some of them met by friends, many of them by Communists, AntiFascists, any expatriated faction which disrelished what they did at home. But Mayor Hylan's policemen preserved them from harm, and Mayor Hylan himself spoke to them...
...flagged them away. He had put up a large silver trophy for the winner of this "Reliability Test." Planes were judged on the consistency of their performances. They buzzed steadily ahead, not trying for speed but just to see which could stick at it best. At Indianapolis they were met by rain, at Chicago by a cheering crowd. In Omaha Pilot "Casey" Jones wriggled between two other contestants to make a landing-on top of a motorcycle; cycle and plane were wrecked. Mechanics worked through the night, sent him on his way again. Fifteen of the 16 landed safe...