Word: mean
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Evolution of the Forty-six Footer," because it comes from the hand of George A. Stewart, if for no other reason. Mr. Stewart speaks with authority, for he is the senior member of the firm of Stewart & Binney, the successors of Edward Burgess, and a man of no mean experience in yachting matters...
...while the real education of the college is built upon its magnificent muscular development, education in its best sense mean that the intellect is trained so that it can be exercised by its owner - that it has ideas, that it can express its ideas lucidly n any subject that may come before...
...were often called to account for action which they did not positively know to be punishable. The present step which the Administrative Board has taken sets matters on a much more satisfactory basis. By informing the students beforehand just what the regulation is, and just how far they mean it to hold good, they have raised the standard of morality connected with the whole question of college obedience, and have taken the proper method to secure the co-operation of constant attendance with the work of the college. An ounce of prevention, it runs, is worth a pound of cure...
...mean, said Mr. Allen, to decry all small books; many of the greatest works in literature are short, but the epitomes of larger books of information are to be avoided. Reading these short volumes produces an impression of erudition but it is superficial and does not last. There are no short cuts to knowledge...
...true uplifting and emancipation of our life comes through the recognition of the higher ties and relationships which bind us. I mean that the progress and elevation of the soul is a progress of discovery, not that it is independent and masterless, but that the lower laws and conditions under which it lives are subordinate to higher laws, and that its bondage in a certain sphere becomes transformed into liberty when it is lifted up into a higher sphere where he that seweth and that is sewed are subject unto Him who is sovereign over both...