Word: mets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Egyptologists agreed, and turned up at 3 o'clock of the appointed morning just as the refugees from Paris' nightclubs met the first milkman in the streets. The two scholars were equipped with a pink parasol and a walkie-talkie. At the foot of the obelisk, Parisian firemen stood ready with a hook & ladder. The younger of the pair, Mario Fabre, climbed to the top of the monolith; the other, François Guinet-Chaplain, established himself at its base. The hours went by. A crowd began to gather. At 10 o'clock the crowd was thick...
Eventually, after pedaling a bicycle 500 miles or so from Parnell, Ben turned up at the State Agricultural College of Colorado (now Colorado A. & M.). There he met a kindred spirit, a rugged football player named Merlin ("Deacon") Aylesworth, whose father was the college president. They whooped it up together, on the gridiron and on & off the campus. But it wasn't long before Ben said goodbye to Aylesworth (who later became president of the National Broadcasting Co.) and pedaled back to Parnell. That was the end of his academic education...
...meeting took place anyway, and Winston was there. The local Teachers' Union claimed the club was only trying to "challenge the legality of the ruling." The "challenge" was met, with immediate suspension for the Karl Marx club and its three executives...
...January 22, the Regents met for three hours. When they walked out of the meeting, Gundlach, Phillips and Butterworth were unemployed. Eby, Ethel, and Jacobs were on two year probation. Nobody has gone so far as to define probation, but Professor Ethel said, "whatever they require of me I intend to comply...
Dever has offered two methods for reallocating the deficits but both have met loud protest from the groups who will have to pay. First, he wanted the State legislature to determine that the MTA lines and the subways were "highways" and, as such, were to be maintained by the receipts from gasoline and other automotive taxes. The car owners objected to this plan; they argued that persons who paid a gas tax were the least likely to use the MTA. And this program was disregarded entirely early this year, when the State Supreme Court ruled such action illegal...