Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Champions of the Progressive battle line met in the tents of the Capital?Hiram Warren Johnson and Gifford Pinchot, conferring in private. "An alliance?" the conjecturers exclaimed. But the chieftains were terse in their descriptions of their meeting...
...executive committee of the Harvard League of Nations Non-Partisan Association met yesterday afternoon to discuss plans for the remainder of the year. The committee made the announcement that Justice Clarke's address at the Union Thursday night attracted 19 new members to the Association. Membership has been increasing steadily all the fall, but the committee contemplates an organized drive for additional members some time after the Christmas recess...
...Union President Lowell will start the active campaign of the year in his talk on the "Choice of a Career." In the past the undergraduate has had a right to complain that the College was not helping him directly in his most difficult problem. His criticism is being met and in the future his complaints will elicit no sympathy. Tonight he will have the very opportunity which he has been demanding--the opportunity to hear from a man eminently qualified to speak on the subject the reasons on which to base a wise "choice of a career...
...seemed to be able to supply him with what he needed. Finally he was informed that what he wanted was a "paper cutter." He was immediately relieved and carried this ivory implement about with him all day. He has been in town only a week and he has met "everyone," from Irvin Cobb to Gloria Swanson. He is so friendly and so human that it scarcely seems fair to catalog him as an English novelist...
...Wimbledon, England, in her sleep. Her existence was not generally known. There is no mention of her in standard reference works, and she never went into Society. She took no part in his public activities and never went to Court. It is said that when Lord Morley met her she was unable, under English law, to procure a divorce from her then husband, and he (Lord Morley) was therefore unable to make her his legal wife until several years later...