Word: mean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...facts are that four teachers were given the test. . . . One of the four made a score of 20, the average for the four was a grade of 67, which would mean that the other three made an average of 83. So you see 9,000 Colorado schoolteachers were being judged as to their knowledge of history on the basis of a low score by one teacher...
Cutting demand would certainly be one way to stop inflation. The other way was to increase production. Said Eccles: "Production is the ultimate solution for inflation." But with the U.S. already riding a full employment economy, that could only mean the harder work and longer hours Eccles suggested. The U.S. was still feeling only a little sick; it was not yet feeling bad enough to work the fever...
...Mayer," said the Premier. "If the government does that, it admits that nothing can be done in France without Communist consent. It would mean the wrecking of our foreign policy. It would not only mean that I might as well go back to planting beans in Lorraine-to which I have no objection-but also that the recovery of France would be indefinitely postponed...
Davidson was getting ready to study medicine at Yale when one day he picked up a lump of clay and "knew right off" he wanted to be a sculptor."But when I switched over to art," he says, "the world lost a promising surgeon. I mean someone useful as well as ornamental." Now a squat 64, his round brown eyes stare frankly at the world from above a salt-&-pepper beard which is bushy enough for a Lower Slobbovian. "I shaved it off in 1917," he remembers, "and Great God! For three weeks until I could grow it back...
...commenting on the action, Provost Buck declared that it was "Impossible" to work up three good sets of examinations and that dropping of the wartime expedient would mean better tests generally...