Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...organization of the Negroes was to be attained by the formation of the International Negro Improvement Association. In August. 1920, 3,000 delegates, from Abyssinia to Australia, met in Manhattan. A Declaration of Negro Rights and a Constitution of Negro Liberty were drawn up. A flag colored black, red and green was adopted; a World Leader and Supreme Deputy Potentate were elected; plans were made to build a " Black House " in Washington for Marcus Garvey, newly elected Provisional President of Africa. The following Universal Ethiopian Anthem was adopted...
...rowdyism of the Royalists met with hostile comment in the Chambre des Députés, where within three months another riotous scene occurred (TIME, March 31). Leon Daudet, leader of the Royalist Party in Paris, editor of l'Action Française, Royalist journal, was assailed on all sides by irate Socialists when he took his seat in the Chamber. It was with difficulty that the ushers and saner deputies were able to prevent grievous bodily harm being done him. Despite Daudet's valiant efforts to fight the entire Chamber single-voiced, he was obliged...
...brothers courted two sisters, but were jilted. Two other brothers courted the sisters. Four brothers met at dawn and fought it out with scythes. The last two brothers were dangerously wounded and are in hospital. The first two brothers are in jail awaiting long sentences. The two sisters are free looking for two more brothers. All this happened at Svatinca, a village in Yugo-Slavia...
England has met the problem of the better student by the use of the tutorial system and of the Henor and Pass Degress; certainly Oxford and Cambridge offer unusual opportunities to the student of superior ability. Harvard has anticipated other American colleges in meeting the same problem. To the student of exceptional ability, divisional and the tutorial system offer greater opportunities and make greater demands; it is significant that the statistics for 1923 show a much smaller proportion of men securing degrees in three years. But Harvard cannot compete on fair terms with Oxford and Cambridge until the tutorial system...
...next week, 18 men were chosen to go on the spring trip through Connecticut. On Wednesday, April 18, Loomis was an easy victim, Puffer holding his opponents to seven hits, and on the two successive days Hotchkiss and Taft were overcome. On Saturday, however, the Freshmen met their first real opposition, finally succumbing to Choate by the narrow margin of 3 to 2. It was a well-played game, Captain Gimlich, the opposing moundsman, being the deciding factor in a thrilling seesaw contest...