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Word: met (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Whiteman added that the consistent success that his band met with throughout its European tour convinced him that American jazz is a language that everyone understands and feels. Going into Spain. Italy, Switzerland, countries in which they were unknown, he said they received hearty applause...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "American Jazz" a Distinct International Idiom in the Opinion of Paul Whiteman--Band Will Enter the Movies | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...glass-paneled ceiling, with theatre footlight effect. Instead of a rising curtain, Speaker Longworth, with jaunty step, mounted the rostrum, struck his gavel twice upon the block and called above the din: "The House will be in order." Opposite him the hands of the big gilt clock exactly met at the top of the dial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Seventieth Sits | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

First to quick step after receiving the circular letter was the Podesta of Bergamo. Under his auspices met, next day, a joint conclave of the local Employers' Association and the Workingmen's Syndicates-both arch-Fascist organizations. Within 30 minutes they had adopted a resolution in part as follows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Decrowd Your City! | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...Innocence. Here is Edith Wharton's story of the Countess Olenska, eloquently transferred to the stage by Margaret Ayer Barnes. The Countess Olenska returned to Manhattan, leaving her horrible Count in Europe. In Manhattan she met Newland Archer; they fell in love, but Newland married a girl to whom he was engaged. Newland Archer and the Countess nearly ran away together when the horrible Count crossed the ocean to retrieve her; but Newland's wife was too feeble for the Countess, who was sick of cruelties, to injure; so Countess Olenska returned to her Count and Newland Archer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 10, 1928 | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

After 1900, Harvard and Yale met in annual games, and from the start of the series the Crimson maintained the superiority in the ice game that has kept Yale in submission since that date. Twenty-one of the annual series has been crowned by Harvard victories, and only six have gone the way of New Haven. Yale won the first game, in 1900, and took two out of three two years later after Harvard had scored a 4-0 shootout in the only game played in 1901. Through 1907 there was an unbroken run of Harvard victories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOR'-EASTERS OF NEW ENGLAND HAVE BLOWN HARVARD RIGHT INTO HOCKEY GAMES SINCE THE TEAM HAD ITS SHOES STOLEN | 12/6/1928 | See Source »

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