Word: metting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...latest Merchant Marine Act (Jones-White) under which eleven great Shipping Board vessels were recently sold (TIME, Feb. 18). All day every day during Senate sessions he can be found in his aisle seat, behind an embankment of papers and books, hard at work. No hail-fellow-well-met, he is not on easy, congenial terms with the average handshaking, backslapping Senators. His Republican colleagues preferred Indiana's easy-going Watson to him as Republican leader to succeed Charles Curtis...
...years ago Claire Ulrich, chorus girl met Charles E. Whitehurst, Baltimore. Md., theatreman, in Manhattan. They went to a hotel. In their room, without witnesses, they read to each other the marriage service from a prayer book, exchanged vows. On page 449 the girl wrote "Claire" and then "Charles." As man and wife they lived together briefly...
...Whitehurst case the Maryland court said: "Our conclusion is that they [the circumstances] more than met the requirements of the law [of New York...
...only recently. The difficulties of the transition period that faces the great majority of students after graduation have long been realized but definite assumption on the part of the colleges of the responsibility for helping to reduce them has been tardy in appearing. At Harvard the situation has been met in the past rather haphazardly, and the report of the Student Council can be taken as evidence of a gratifying movement towards systematization...
...politically high-minded ruler whose actions were tyrannous. Giuliano's brother was Pope Leo X, a dilettante and politician who palely reflected his father's glories. Giuliano himself had the aquiline features and dark locks of his tribe. But he did not have the spouting energy. He met and married Princess Philiberta of Savoy, aunt of Francis...