Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Congress met last week, Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas, his face stamped with anxiety, visited the White House. To President Hoover he stated his problem: Kansas granaries bulged with 40,000,000 bushels of 1928 surplus wheat held for export. It hung over the incoming crop, an imminent incubus. It could not be moved to seaboard with a transportation loss to the producers of 8? per bushel-a freight rate advantage enjoyed by Canada and Argentina on the wheat for the world market. Said Senator Capper: "This wheat must be moved in the next three months, as July wheat will...
Representatives of every nation of any consequence, including the U. S. and Soviet Russia, met in Geneva last fortnight to take up the work of the League of Nations Preparatory Disarmament Commission where it was left last year (TIME, April 2, 1928). Chairman was a Dutchman, gruff, able, patient Jonkheer J. Loudon. Presently the delegates were asked to express individually their approval or disapproval of the following general principles: 1) Appreciable reduction by all nations of their existing armaments; 2) Acceptance by each nation in proportion to its size of a proportional degree of disarmament; 3) Adoption of a mathematical...
...Crimson enters the contest with a slate of two victories, one defeat, and a single tie. To start the season Harvard triumphed over the Alumni team, but during the spring recess the Crimson stickmen were trounced by Union College. Cornell met defeat at Harvard's hands last Saturday, and in a practice game on Tuesday the University tied with the Boston Lacrosse Club aggregation...
...Harvard opens its schedule next Saturday with M. I. T. the Engineers will have rowed two races, one of which ended in a sweeping victory over the Navy on the Severn last week. On May 18 the Crimson eight will face the crew from Annapolis on the Severn, having met Cornell on the Charles in the interim...
...doubt undesirable that any very large percentage of this body should have to find lodging in apartments where entertaining and informal meeting with students can be accomplished only with difficulty. Quite recently the most pressing phase of the situation, that of proper housing for young instructors has been met by the establishment of the Harvard Housing Trust, which though owned and controlled outside of the University, works in informal cooperation with it. The two groups of houses so far built by this organization, namely Shaler Lane and Holden Green have met with a well merited popularity from faculty members...