Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile the Rhode Island Senate met regularly four times a week and adjourned for lack of a quorum. No bills were passed, although it was the only legislature of Rhode Island which ever was continuously in session for an entire year. Funds failed the state. Many state employes got no salaries...
...Met a group of solemn judges, their faces reflective of the well-nigh sinister gravity of their office. They were the Hanging Committee. All week they labored, considering case after case, ever and again despaching small dockets which prescribed the action of certain hirelings who, with hammer, rope, wire, went about their business in the Anderson Galleries, Manhattan. They were preparing for the exhibition of the New Society of Artists. The doors of the gallery opened, the judgments of the committee and the consequent hangings stood patent to oglers...
...meeting held in October, the Trinity trustees had approved a plan for "the expansion of this historic college," as outlined by President Few, on condition that funds be found. Last week, with undreamed of funds already in their midst, they found their condition met. For months Durham real estate agencies have been active buying up lands adjacent to the present campus. There will arise a medical school, a large college for women, a law college, a school of engineering, a school for teachers, and the customary football stadium "with a seating capacity of approximately...
Chief of the modern Macedonians who have demanded autonomy have been Todor Alexandrov, General Protogerov, Peter Schankev. For years, this triumvirate kept the Macedonian question well before the world. A few months ago, Todor Alexandrov was murdered; and last week one Dimitri Stefanov met Peter Schankev in a cafe at Milan, fired five shots from an automatic pistol at him, killed him. The two deaths were connected by the tale which the assassin told...
...repeated fines for eating out of commons, a strong dislike to being herded together and forced to eat poor food, gradually drove the students to eating in public taverns. The attempts of the authorities to enforce the rules soon aroused the students to active revolts in which they met force with force. The simplest and most popular expression of disapproval of the food consisted in impromptu bombardments, when the offending meats, ples, and puddings were hurled about the room, followed, in the more acute manifestations, by the table ware and utensils...