Word: mean
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...These are very excellent and varied words," says the Victorian, "highly connetstive; some of them trip together delightfully; only, what do they mean?" Irresistibly the mind of the Victorian runs back to that first love affair of David Copperfield's, when Miss Shepherd, whom the Misses Nettingall outrageously stood in the stocks for turning in her toes, Miss Shepherd to whom as a token of affection he gave twelve Brazil nuts, "difficult to pack into a parcel of any regular shape; hard to crack even in room doors... and oily when cracked," was mistress of his heart. "At home...
...this game is that the advisory committee and the coaches thought that three hard games at the end of the season were too severe a strain on the players, and they therefore thought that it was best that Dartmouth be dropped from the schedule next fall. This does not mean, however, that the break in the long series of contests between the two Universities will be permanent, for it was merely decided upon for the one year. The substitution of an easier game will enable the players to be in a better condition for the Yale game than they would...
...capitalism syndicalism would be capable of stepping in and taking charge of affairs. The tendency of syndicalism to overemphasize the lateral interests of labor: that is, the interests of the crafts as a whole, and to slight the interests of the individual crafts, if allowed to grow, would mean the ultimate downfall of the movement...
...present board of editors of the Advocate continues to show uncommon enterprise and no small amount of journalistic instinct. The current issue may not represent a type which we should like to see become permanent, but is what the ready-made clothing advertisements mean by "different", when they write the word in quotation marks. It has two articles which especially show that the editors are wide-awake. One is an allegory on Harvard College by Benjamin Franklin, which is as far from flattering as it is near the truth as to the conditions of our own day. The other...
...been in the unique position of a library with almost no books. The difficulty of supplying readers has been a constantly increasing one as more and more volumes have been moved elsewhere. Now, however, the concentration of the entire business department in the same building with the books will mean service almost as prompt as it was before the commencement of work...