Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yale team which takes the floor tonight, the Crimson will find the stiffest opposition of the season. Although the visitors met defeat in the two first games of their schedule, they have since then shown remarkable improvement, not allowing a single other defeat to mar their almost perfect record. Captain Mumby is the high scorer for the Blue, but will find stiff opposition from Barbee, the Crimson guard whom he faces tonight...
...Frank B. Kellogg and Mrs. Kellogg flitted silently into Washington one eventide, were met by Secretary Hughes and assistants. After stopping at their hotel, they were spirited by an automobile, the world unknowing, to the White House. There they dined with the Coolidges, and Mr. Kellogg presented, informally, a hopeful view of European politics. Another motor car spirited them away. Not until the next day did the press discover that he had supped with the President...
...York City. He would be at home anywhere, in a curious, amused, detached sort of way. They tell of Irish charm. One sees it in varying quantities. James Stephens has more of it in the crook of his little finger than any other Shamrock wearer I have ever met has in his whole carcass. Small, wiry, with an effort almost of crookedness in the bend of his walk, with a face crinkled and traced by the ways of much laughter, he is constantly making his little jokes. Something of the mystic, something of the comedian and a little...
...have not yet seen Stephens do any of the usual things : reading his poems, or performing in any way before the multitude. I only met him with a couple of his old friends, exchanging yarns of Dublin, listening to Marc Connelly's jokes, repeating the famous parodies of Oliver Gogarty, being distinctly human and entirely at home. He had arrived very late, and it had taken a great deal of shouting out the window to bring him finally to the right door. Traffic in New York puzzles him. He now gets on a street car with an address...
This suggestion met with the complete approval of the college delegates present at the meeting and in short order a constitution with bylaws was drawn up, officers were elected, the further formalities of organization were completed and application was made for membership in the United States Polo Association...