Word: metting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Representatives of Harvard, Yale Princeton, Columbia, and Williams met in New York on December 30 to form the Intercollegiate Flying Association. The purpose of this league is to add aviation to the list of annual contests between the leading universities of the country...
Professor Carver commented on the economic results of the year 1919 as follows: "1919 has been a very peculiar year, and in many ways it has been a very prosperous year. Following, as it did, directly on the great war, there were conditions to be met and problems to be solved which had never been confronted before. Prices and wages both soared-to the advantage of some; to the detriment of others. Those who were most prosperous during the past year were the producing class, the heads of great industries. These men reaped enormous profits, charging practically any price...
...reception that has been tendered me and the whole-hearted enthusiasm of this great city have alone convinced me that America has been much misrepresented in Europe. Never have I met with such hospitality as I have found here in New York. And your American women-they are more charming than I had dared to imagine and I shall be ever grateful to them for the kindness they have shown...