Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cornell took heed of the Army's very successful experiments, and launched its own intensive courses in modern languages. Classes met eight hours per week in new atmosphere--English was not spoken in the room. Mechanical devices and "native informants" (graduate students from foreign countries) helped perfect pronunciation. By 1950, the program had proven so successful that Cornell adopted it outright. Columbia soon followed, and rapidly developed a comparable program which gave it, along with Cornell, the finest elementary language courses of colleges in the nation...
When the two teams met again in 1911, the Crimson was embarked upon a period of football greatness. Princeton managed, nonetheless, to eke out an 8-6 triumph that fall, and in 1912 the Crimson had to struggle...
This Saturday afternoon the two upset victims meet in Philadelphia in a game that the Pennsylvania public address announcer at last Saturday's game called "the most important of the season." That billing met with boos and hisses from the Harvard stands, but it must be admitted that the Yale-Penn game is of major importance...
Government mediation chief Joseph F. Finnegan met separately with both sides in morning and afternoon...
...dinners with bankers, ambassadors, corporate presidents. He is constantly on the alert for the clue that will tell him where to find a potential customer, where to make a big new loan. His door is never closed to those who want to see him. In a recent week he met with the Belgian ambassador and the finance minister of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, played host to several distinguished British bankers, received half a dozen officers of corresponding banks. One customer summed him up: "Quick, pleasant, brilliant...