Word: meted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...toughen them morally as well as mentally and physically, Miss Ruutz-Rees made her girls enact their own rules of conduct, mete out their own punishments. Result is strict discipline. For eating candy (only fruit is allowed between meals), a Rosemarian is kept "on bounds" for two weeks. Some other rules: no chewing gum or cigarets (except for sixth formers), no lipstick or nail polish while in uniform, no reading unpermissioned literature or attending unpermissioned movies...
WASHINGTON--President Roosevelt today criticized as reprehensible the conduct of persons in Michigan who throw eggs at Wendell L. Willkie and urged the state to mete out swift punishment...
...first director of the Budget. He declared his belief that the public debt soars because Government departments are putting one over on Franklin Roosevelt; that if the next President would make his department heads swear fealty to the idea of budget balancing, and if a "coordinating control system" would mete out each department's funds, deficits would end. (Three days later, indignant Franklin Roosevelt, who has not been to a C. of C. convention in seven years, told some 5,000 Democratic women that boards were no way to balance a budget, made his oft-repeated challenge: to balance...
...Williams carnival Saturday and Sunday. This was the first major ski win within the memory of anyone now in college. Winship finished third and Ames fourth in the downhill, which was held on the Thunderbolt Trail under icy conditions. The jumping was the last event held on the 35 mete hill, where the Crimson team made a perfect record, thus bringing their total score to 465.15 and edging out the Dartmouth second team by 21 points...