Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...visitors tonight have an excellent record to back up their calims for a victory. The strong Springfield five which gave the University a close battle, has twice met defeat at their hands, while the Army was pushed to its utmost to win by a one point margin. A string of nine victories and only three defeats sums up the visitors accomplishments, as opposed to nine victories and two defeats for the Crimson...
...talk, the meeting of the C. P. P. A. was adjourned and its delegates, excepting the labor union representatives, met to set up their third party...
...Chinese Government handed over to Dutch Minister W. J. Ondenick, dean of the Diplomatic Corps at Peking, $300,000 in Chinese currency, representing payment for damages sustained in the bandit outrage of 1923 (see under). There are still supplementary damages to be met, but the amount of these is disputed...
...Wordsworth, Byron, Spenser, looked into Chapman's Homer, wrote some stumbling poetry, made friends with Editor Leigh Hunt, Painter Haydon, Etcher Joseph Severn, Publish- er's Reader Woodhouse. Although lie was only five feet high, the beauty of his countenance and the vivacity of his manners charmed all who met him; the more discerning of his acquaintance found in his verse the evidence of great talent. He, happy in the promise of the career that opened before him, enjoyed life immensely? when he did not happen to have a sore throat...
...fortify his health, he started on a walking tour through Scotland. There the mist wetted him, the food was bad, he met "a mahogany-faced old jackass who knew Burns." While he was tramping 30 miles a day in drenched clothes for the sake of his throat, certain sharp dolts in Edinburgh published a review of his poem Endynrion, called it "Cockney Poetry," advised him to go back "to plasters, pills and ointment boxes," prophesied that his bookseller would not a second time "venture £50 on anything he might write." These reviews were waiting for him when he returned...