Word: mets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Argentina played host last week to some 200 scholars and savants from 19 countries. They met in lovely Mendoza, in the foothills of the Andes, to ponder the philosophy of modern...
What violence these would do no one knew, but so many airplanes had met disaster far below sonic speed that the "sonic wall" had earned a fearful reputation. Designers and pilots spoke of it with awe. It was widely believed that when an airplane reached the speed of sound, it would disintegrate...
...offer him." He considers his Club friends to be less stand-offish than "the average Harvard man," but fails to make it clear whether or not those genial Club men are genial only with other Club men or if they are just naturally "hail-fellows-well-met." Finally, the author draws an absurd parallel between the exclusiveness of political groups and that of the final Clubs. This little exercise in sophistry seems to be openly tongue-in-cheek as does the pompous argument that the Clubs are merely supplying what the Houses are supposed to give...
Philbrick said that Martha Fletcher, wife of Harold A. Fletcher 3G, gave such instructions to a five-member Communist party unit which met in her home at 15 Grove Street, Boston. Using "The History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union" as a text, Mrs. Fletcher defined an unjust war as one occurring between the United States and Russia, Philbrick said...
...squad met poor weather most of the way and dropped every game by top heavy scores. Always playing in pouring rain or heavy wind, they lost to North Carolina 27 to 0, Virginia Tech 22 1/2 to 4 1/2, Virginia 5 to 2, and Georgetown...