Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United States are insisting upon their rights in Turkey under the terms of the capitulation treaties. They are, however, willing to exchange these rights against guarantees in the new treaty, which, it is hoped, will result from the present conference. The Turks, with their usual barefaced equanimity, have met the Allied demands with the bland remark : " There are no capitulations; we abolished them in 1914. You have, therefore, nothing to exchange." The upshot of the matter is that the treaty was sent back to the experts for study and is not likely to come up again for general discussion until...
...Imperial Conference is a meeting of the Prime Ministers of all the self-governing dominions-Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Union of South Africa, the Irish Free State, Newfoundland-together with the secretary of State for India. In its original form it was called the Colonial Conference and first met when the Premiers represented their Dominion Governments at the Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887. In 1907, however, owing to its growing importance, its name was changed to the Imperial Conference and it was presided over by the Prime Minister of Great Britain instead of the Secretary of State...
Over 200 Freshmen met last night in the Smith Halls Common Room to give the 1926 crew a send-off for the race. Dr. R. H. Howe '01 opened the meeting by introducing Bert Haines, the Freshman coach. While he praised the Navy and Princeton Freshman eights, Coach Haines admitted that he felt optimistic about the result of the race. Captains A. B. Ladd Jr. '23 of the University and Richard Trimble Jr. '26 of the Freshmen then spoke briefly...
...school in Croydon (London), where teachers are striking against a 5% reduction in salary, the pupils declined to be taught by substitutes. The boys met one of these temporary masters in class with cries of" Blackleg!" When the master threatened to cane one boy, the whole class rushed him and he was forced to beat a hasty retreat. Jubilant over their victory, the boys then indulged in an orgy of "crashing" windows and desks, carrying their celebrations out into the yard. They were finally quelled by the police. The strike is said to be the first of its kind...
Forced to earn her own living when she was very young, Mrs. Rinehart became a nurse. In the hospital she met Dr. Rinehart; she was married at nineteen. It was not until after her three sons were born that she started writing. Her first efforts were children's poems, which, she tells you, were exceedingly bad. Then she wrote short stories with some success. Her first novel, The Circular Staircase, which later became The Bat, was a great success, and from that time her progress has been steady. She has never written a failure. That is largely because...