Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief problem", declares the report in discussing the disproportionate emphasis on athletics and football in particular, "is one of relative values; and it must be met, in our opinion, by following the principle that athletics is an element in the education of the individual to be given its due place but no more than that; the object being the all-round development -- intellectual, physical, and moral--of the student." Only one criticism of this is possible--the idea of athletics as a means rather than an end has become so fixed in all intelligent discussion of the problem at Harvard...
...French enter a mining district, with machine guns, tanks, and all the other appurtenances of war, the whistles in the town are blown, and when the French troops come up, they are met by the entire population who merely stand around with folded arms and calmly watch the movements of the aggressors. Naturally the troops cannot fire on such a gathering, and they are also unsuccessful in getting work out of the Germans. The French are spending 500,000,000 francs a month in the Ruhr, or the equivalent of a million dollars a day, and at present they have...
...process of passing from that quickened consciousness we term life into that black borderland which, so far as we know, edges eternity". Then, in an article written just before an operation which proved fatal to him, he tells of the various ways in which he had previously met death:--by falling down an elevator shaft, from the effects of a mine explosion, from a shell-wound, from anaesthetic, and from loss of blood. But every time the return to life proved more painful to him than the leaving of it. At last he was able to look forward to real...
During the afternoon these guests arrived at the Crimson Building on Plympton Street where they met the present editors and undergraduate members of the staff. In addition to a general informal reunion in the Sanctum, the guests inspected the building and watched the first part of the makeup of the special Saturday evening edition...
...defendant, one Ves Wingler, married Candace Miller in 1891, and went with her to a cabin in the mountains " 17 or 18 miles from North Wilkesboro, N. C." In May, 1893, she met a violent death. Her husband was the sole witness. On his testimony the coroner's jury brought in a verdict of accidental death, caused by a fall from a loft in the cabin onto the stone hearth in front of the fireplace. In April, 1922, Ves Wingler was arrested, tried and convicted and the judgment affirmed by the Supreme Court carried an indeterminate sentence of from...