Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...account of Bishop Brent reminds me of the story of Bishop Rowe of Alaska. One day the Bishop met a prospector on a stretch of bad trail, and asked him how the trail was. The prospector described the condition in language such as a dog-musher is supposed to be complete master of. Then, pausing for breath, he said, "And how is it where your way?" Without a moment's hesitation the Bishop, "Just the same as you describe." At the next roadhouse the old-timer was much chagrined when told that he had passed the bishop...
...asked the President to attend the International Advertising Association's convention in that city next August. Instead of accepting, President Hoover wrote a letter commending advertising ethics to Charles Clark Younggreen, the association's president. Mr. Younggreen, overjoyed, made the letter public two months before the convention met...
Fifty women, representing 17 states, met in Chicago, formed the Woman's Organization for National Prohibition Reform. Mrs. Sabin, leading spirit, was chosen chairman. The purpose: to enlist five million women to fight Prohibition, to favor Temperance...
...stage will be less sonorous than that of the principals at the footlights. Another is that musical comedies depend for much of their effect on color, and color-production in cinemas has not yet been perfected even as well as sound. Last week three new singing-&-dancing pictures met these difficulties with varying success...
...standard annual payment under the Dawes Plan is 595 millions. The Young Plan reduces this to $487,600,000. Of this amount, Germany must pay unconditionally in cash and deliveries-in-kind about $158,400,000. The rest will be met by the sale of bonds, financed and guaranteed by an international bank of settlement, sold to private individuals in Europe...