Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...National League of Women Voters met at Richmond, Va. President Belle Sherwin recorded the general chagrin that the 1924 Presidential vote was only 50.92% of the total voters-a less than 2% gain over 1920. The League had aimed to get out a 75% vote-or approximately 15,000,000 more voters than actually did their duty...
...Earl and his party had proceeded from Jerusalem to Nazareth and Haifa in a sort of triumphal tour. At all points, he was met by enthusiastic Jewish colonists; Arabs appeared to inform him that they lived peacefully with their Jewish neighbors...
Then he revisited New Orleans, met Gentleman Jim Corbett in a square place with ropes around. Fourteen rounds, and the Strong Boy lay still, with blood purling down his jowls. By the ropes, Senator Roscoe Conkling, tall in black, was graven in wood; Steve Brodie, apoplectic with woe, wobbled about on his seat. Thereafter, the Strong Boy devoted himself to other activities...
...England College. He will never play on an important varsity team. But he sings first bass in the glee club and may eventually become its leader, although this post usually goes to a tenor. He has been initiated into his father's fraternity (Phi Gamma Delta). He has met with decorum all the customary American assaults upon the dignity of a freshman (they once made him speak half an hour from a soapbox in praise of Senator LaFollette). And President George D. Olds-veteran professor who succeeded Alexander Meiklejohn - described his academic record as being "very satisfactory...
...last I met a kindly old Prophezzor whose face smiled benignity and humanity. When I asked what he was doing to further the cause of education, he shook his head. "It doesn't matter what you teach a young man, you can never educate him," he said. "It used to worry me when I saw how eagerly these upturned faces hung upon my words as if awaiting an oracle, and then how lightly they forgot what I had taken such pains to make clear. I discovered that the whole problem of education has been approached from the wrong...