Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years ago in New Orleans, business leaders of the Americas met under sponsorship of TIME-LIFE International to consider a problem of great moment to the free world: how to accelerate the flow of investment capital to areas in the Western Hemisphere where it would do the most good. The conference was so successful that TLI Director Edgar Baker began at once to plan a meeting focused on another geographical area. On a trip to Asia to test the idea on businessmen and bankers there, Baker found widespread interest...
Walter Johnson, perhaps the greatest pitcher of all time, had a lifetime ambition to win a World Series game. The Senators, his club, were a perennial second-division team. In the twilight of his career, however, the Senators won a pennant and met the Giants in the 1924 Series...
Farnsworth said that "there is no advantage to be gained by closing the University. The problem must be met, and we have the facilities to deal with it here...
...Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel, 68 member nations of the International Monetary Fund met last week to grapple with what Xenophon Zolotas, governor of the Bank of Greece, wryly termed "numismatic plethora." The inflated phrase aptly described the basic cause of inflation-a common crisis of too much money and too few goods. Not even the Greeks had a word for the cure. Yet all knew that the fund's work in stabilizing currencies by strategic loans was one of the free world's most powerful weapons...
Maine, the defending New England cross country champion, met the varsity, defending Heptagonal champions, at Franklin Park Saturday morning, with the results proving once again that the Crimson is more than a match for its New England relations...