Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...international aspect of U. S. prohibition was the theme of a Conference of Drys, The World League Against Alcoholism, which met last week at Winona Lake, Ind. In colorful language, several speakers depicted what U. S. prohibition means to the rest of the world and how the rest of the world affects U. S. prohibition...
While investigating asbestos beds in the Ural Mountains, a Soviet engineer, M. Troutman, himself an amateur artist, met a 14-year-old Russian boy, Peter Miranov, found promise in his drawings. Troutman brought the boy back with him to Moscow, showed his work to Malieva, who declared that, apart from minor technique, he could teach him nothing, as the boy possessed the rarest of natural gifts−correct draftsmanship. Troutman continued further, interested the Soviet authorities, who have recently commissioned the boy to travel through the South to do landscapes for the State gallery...
...University College, London, 400 delegates met for the Triennial Imperial Education Conference. Represented were all the lands of the British Empire. Solemn sessions were held for five days, much was discussed. Chief attention was given to experiment and new development in education−a day to "the newest methods in the training of teachers," a day to the Dalton System (mode of secondary education, perfected by Miss Parkhurst of Dalton, Mass.). Eminent literary men delivered addresses on "English as a Bond of Empire." At one of the sessions, Alfred Noyes, poet and former lecturer at Princeton University, presided...
...erstwhile prominent Rabbi, he received opportunities of perfecting his literary education to a high degree, an achievement which has been invaluable to him ever since the day upon which he met Lenin in Germany and became an ardent revolutionary...
...case, a most enthusiastic and heated controversy is now going on in the London journals, over the old issue of deflation vs. inflation. Yet no one so far has met or controverted Mr. Leaf's recommendations...