Word: mean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Wei Li-huang has what Chinese call a lucky face: smooth features, no pocks or scars. Among generals, such a face is supposed to mean that its owner will not be defeated, killed, wounded or captured by the enemy. But last week, in his new job as Nationalist Army Chief in Manchuria, it looked as though General Wei's luck was fast running...
...based on the assumption that there are no degrees of ability and that efforts to establish such degrees are undemocratic. . . . We believe that a student has the right to as good an education as he can be given and is capable of receiving." But that didn't mean that every man, woman & child in the U.S. should be sent to Harvard...
...work of science is cooperative; a scientist takes his colleagues as judges, competitors and collaborators. That does not mean, of course, that he loves his colleagues; but it gives him a way of living with them which would not be without its use in the contemporary world...
...Phoenix editorial noted that "the irrefutable fact that there is a great deal of sexual outlet on the part of the college male does not mean that such outlet is approved by the groups that are concerned with the college's educational policy...
...mean that their nine-year publishing partnership was breaking up? Apparently it did. Said Mrs. Boettiger: "John is quitting because he wants to go to Europe and write. I felt I was better suited to this...