Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Premier Eleutherios Venizelos arrived in Athens. Colonel Plastiras, ex-Dictator of Greece, a few friends and some journalists met him. The streets of the capital were deserted. He arrived...
...school is rapidly disappearing. Citizens in every State of the Union have been aware of the change. They have seen the little white (or, by tradition, red) buildings at the cross-roads falling into decay; they have seen larger brick buildings replacing them at central points; and they have met buses on the hard roads conveying pupils from considerable distances to the new seats of instruction. But few have known that it was a nation-wide affair, few have known that it had a long history behind...
...interpretation of the returns of the Prohibition referendum yesterday shows clearly enough that the wets and half-wets of the University have met the enemy and he is theirs. The bone drys were somewhat stronger than the repealing wets but the supporters of light wines and beers swept the field; and that in spite of the fact that the questions on the ballot were so framed as to favor mechanically the dry contingent. In short in every University body except the Graduate Schools exclusive of the Law and Medical, the moderates outvoted the extremists of either wing...
Thus far in the drive only about one thousand men have contributed. If Harvard is to equal the showing made by almost all other universities in the country, it is necessary that the appeal be met with the support of the entire University...
...report of two years ago. The second has been even more a point of dispute since the issue of limitation was raised last spring. The lesson to be learned by the College from this continued interest on the part of the Alumni is that the situations must be met; the criticisms freely granted, the solutions presented applied, or new ones found. Further suggestions may, however, be kept for a few days till the President's next report. This time he may send up a dirigible...