Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Warsaw, Polish capital, where the Ninth Congress of the League of Nations Union met last week, a resolution was adopted which concerns...
...Bolshevism is not at the bottom of the Chinese anti-foreign movement, it is a menace capable of endless trouble in China which can be offset only by the unified action of the Powers. The greatest danger is that the Chinese Government, being met with nothing from the Powers (mainly Britain) but chilly demands for justice with indemnities for the Shanghai outrages (TIME, June 15 et seq.), will listen readily to the friendly advances of Moscow. Undoubtedly with this in their minds, the U. S., Britain and Japan agreed to a compromise at Tokyo aimed at calming China, while...
...nature than could be got from months of study by the most approved method of research. What he said was like Smollett and Gibbon: Smollett's frankness without his coarseness, and Gibbon's erudition and lucidity without his conventionality. In talk of this kind I have never met the man who was Osler's equal...
...just as important political palavers usually go guised as rowdy picnics, important doings were afoot at the 63rd annual convention of the National Education Association, which met, last week, in Indianapolis. Those present, a goodly proportion of the association's 147,000 members,* felt that the doings were "epoch-making." Herding into big Cadle Tabernacle and assembly rooms of the Shortridge High School, the delegates discussed...
Under stars that littered the night sky like the glowing ends of innumerable phantom cigarets, three young couples met, one evening last week, at the Polo Grounds, Manhattan...