Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Theoretically the best sailor of them all should be the head of the Navy Department. Secretary Denby proved himself at least as good as any. When the transport on which he was traveling to the fleet maneuvers met a heavy storm off Hatter as, the Secretary stuck to the bridge...
Shootings. France and German}' are stranded in the quicksands of the Ruhr occupation. The policy of each becomes more violent as time goes on, and the end is still far away. Murder has been met with " killing," and the last battle on the Ruhr promises to be as bloody as the first in the Great...
...experiment being tried in Baffins Bay Land by the Hudson Bay Company, though so far it has met with considerable difficulties, has not discouraged them. Mr. Sale told me in London in October that they were intending to invest more money in the proposition. I cannot but feel, however, from what my friends who have been missionaries in Baffins Land have told me of that country, that it is a much more difficult proposition there than it would be in Labrador. The shipping certainly would be much more difficult, because the country is north of the dangerous Straits of Hudson...
When the President embarked for Europe the Dean regretted that, as a parting salute he had been unable to fire twenty-one undergraduates. As the Administrative Board met Tuesday in its post-Midyear session, I wonder what ceremonies the Office has in mind to welcome the President's return. U. PHONIUS...
...human beings: heard unknown wild voices in the mountain ravines: made out the fires over miry swamps of the will o'-the-wisps: witnessed burning lakes: gazed upward to mountains whose peaks could not be scaled: came across great balls of writhing snakes in the ditches in winter: met with streams which are eternally frozen, rocks like petrified caravans of camels, horsemen and carts; and over all saw the barren mountains whose folds looked like the mantle of Setan, which the glow of the evening sun drenched with blood". This is Mongolia the Mongolia whose ancestors broke their chests against...