Word: metting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Never before has a Harvard fencing team met the Navy in a dual meet at Annapolis, as in the case this year. Heretofore Harvard has fenced the Navy only at the Intercollegiate. This innovation in the schedule promises to be one of the hardest contests of the year...
...Having received the diplomatic corps (TIME, Nov. 26) and met all newcomers, the President & Mrs. Coolidge last week dined the diplomatic corps-92 covers, 49 nations represented, music by Tenor Arthur Hackett and Harpist Alberto Salvi...
...most striking gesture of labor was made outside the A. F. of L. convention. Also in New Orleans met delegates of newly-formed Labor Association, the American Wage-Earners protective conference representing 17 international unions with 250,000 members. The venerable bugaboo of tariff was their concern. They contended that present tariff rates were flooding the country with imported merchandise, that thousands of U. S. laborers were therefore out of work. This claim naturally hinged on statistics. There was a fat volume of them, gathered quietly in Manhattan during the past six months. Figures showing the increase of imported wares...
Reporter Duffy was one of those who met Capt. Frederick Sorenson, passenger on the Vestris, when he was brought in with other survivors on the American Shipper. He quoted Capt. Sorenson as saying that Capt. Carey of the lost ship was "criminally negligent," that certain of the crew were "murderers...
...first newspaper ever printed in this country met the same fate dealt the first gesture towards press censorship and the first attempt to set up a commercial printing shop: "Publick Occurrances both Foreign and Domestick," appeared on September 26, 1690, and was immediately forbidden from the Colonies. The Governor and council gave expression to "high resentment and disallowance" to this paper printed by Richard Pierce for Benjamin Harris of Boston, and forbade anyone "for the future to set forth anything in print without license first obtained...