Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...luncheon at the Nicollet Hotel, food was served, not speeches. Then the party drove to the State Fair Grounds?neutral territory between the rivalrous twins. No President had been in the vicinity since President Wilson called in 1919. In 1921, Vice President Coolidge spoke at that very spot and met a chilly reception. In spite of wind and rain, a crowd of 100,000 or more stood in rapt attention last week, while the President, speaking from the judges' stand opposite the grandstand, praised the Norwegians who first came to this country a century ago. The Norwegian Minister of Labor...
...natural that this great and good friend of Britain should have a pucka (proper) Brahmin funeral. But attempts by the British Ambassador, Lord Crewe, to have his corpse burned on a funeral pyre in the open air met with numerous difficulties, and it was ultimately decided to have his remains cremated. His body, dressed in royal robes, wearing the royal jewels, was reduced to cinders in the furnace of a crematorium...
...match that had been scheduled for Saturday, May 9, with the University of Pennsylvania was unfortunately cancelled of necessity. On May 13 the M. I. T. players were met on the Divinity Courts. Another stainless victory was the result...
...minded on the matter, believing that thorough discussion of the problem is one of the best means for reaching a healthy solution. Several times, also, we have taken occasion to point out institutions where a proposed Honor System has been rejected by students, as at Harvard; where it has met severe enough criticism to gain official attention by University authorities but after discussion has been retained, as at Union College; and where it has been abolished because it has been considered a failure, as in the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania...
...Blue was most successful, for in addition to the capture of intercollegiate indoor honors, the Yale team won the National Class A and Class B championships. Despite this record the Yale team may go down to defeat before a hard-riding team from Pennsylvania Military College, which met the Blue earlier in the season in a game undecided until the final minute of play...