Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Press reports told that Mrs. Coolidge was taking swimming and diving 'lessons of Miss Mary Hernan in an ocean pool at White Court. An article appeared under Instructress Hernan's name in the Hearst Press: I met Mrs. Coolidge at Washington last winter and when I came to Swampscott this summer I met her again at the swimming pool at Little's Point, a private pool owned by the residents of that section of Swampscott. Only ten families are privileged to see Mrs. Coolidge while she is bathing...
...Trenton, Neb., met ten Pawnees from Oklahoma, seven Sioux from South Dakota. They held a "big smoke," patched up the first "peace" between their two tribes in 52 years. Between them had been "war" since 1873 when the Sioux massacred 156 Pawnees, near the spot of the present reconciliation...
Wherefore surprise was general when the Regents of the University of Wisconsin met last week, voted 9 to 6 that "no gifts, donations or subsidies shall in the future be accepted by or on the behalf of the University of Wisconsin from any incorporated educational endowments or organizations of like character." Though Regent Daniel H. Grady, framer of the resolution, pointed out that his colleagues "had no moral right to accept money from the Rockefeller Institution in view of the spending by the Standard Oil Co. of $2,770 for lobbying in the last session of the [state] legislature...
...tender age, to Switzerland where, to earn his living and pay his way through Lausanne University, he became a manual laborer. Subsequently, his revolutionary activities resulted in his being evicted from one Swiss canton after another; and, when he tried his fortune at journalism in Austria, he rapidly met a like fate at the hands of Emperor Franz Josef's soldiers...
Every year since the issuance of this invitation, the Christians have met at Northfield. Last week Dr. Moody's son, William R. Moody, opened the 43rd Northfield General Conference of Christian Workers. Familiar topics were given a new illumination by the following churchmen: The Rev. John A. Hutton, D. D., of the Westminster Chapel, London; the Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick, D. D.; the Rev. James Reid, M. A., of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Eastbourne, Eng.; Dr. William Louis Poteat, President of Wake Forest College, Wake Forest, N. C.; the Rev. W. Fearon Holiday of Selly Oak College, Birmingham...