Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week ago these two sensational quarter milers met in the final leg of the one mile relay championship at the Penn Relay Carnival on Franklin Field, Philadelphia. Bohannon, starting the final lap with a considerable lead, seized the baton and raced around the track in a remarkable dash which was unofficially clocked at 48 3-5 seconds, winning for his team the one mile championship, and for himself sudden fame as a quarter miler. Allen was far behind when at last the Harvard stick was handed to him, but he ran a sensational losing race, completing the circuit...
...like Italians or the people from Southeastern Europe, why do you not say so and shut them out entirely? During the years that I have been traveling through the United States I have met persons of all nationalities, and I have met good and bad ones in all of them, even in my own nationality, which used to be Swedish...
...proposal to use the first three floors of the Eiffel Tower, respectively, as a restaurant, a dance hall and a. tea room on July 14 met with hot opposition from the French General Staff, who now utilize the Tower as a wireless and meteorological station. The refusal was based on the fact that it would establish a precedent and necessitate costly special insurance...
Recently Brander Matthews retired as Professor of Dramatic Literature at Columbia University, and became Professor Emeritus, terminating an active association of 30-odd years. Until the other noon I had never met Professor Matthews. Many of his works on the Drama I knew and admired. I had read and even published various articles on his habits of mind by men not nearly so wise. The other noon in company with William Lyon Phelps, Clayton Hamilton, Jesse Lynch Wil-liams?an ill-assorted but renowned trio ?I had an opportunity to talk with Professor Matthews. His anecdotes contain memories...
...nearly so with those of the Australian blacks and certain Indians, the most primitive of living races. Civilized men, after thousands of years of a soft, mainly agricultural diet, have a very different kind of dental pattern. In the Dryopithecus, the cusps had already expanded so that they met over the grooves, causing "tunnels," which are the potent causes of tooth decay in modern...