Word: mean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thomas A. Unverferth '51, spokesman for the Student Welfare Committee, said his group interpreted Reynolds's last statement to mean that the University is contemplating some positive action regarding student-owned cars and would wait until the Council of Deans moves before announcing its future plans...
...sixth of February these essay answers must be pondered, the wheat sifted from the chaff, and the grades deposited at University Hall. This schedule means a furious 72 hours for instructors and graders in the "Monday...at 9" courses. And it may mean that bluebooks will of necessity receive a little less care and solicitude than they deserve and normally receive...
...exhorted world Communism to fight the Marshall Plan; the second, in June 1948, disclosed that Tito was a Titoist. From 1949's meeting emerged a call for the "active fight of the revolutionary elements inside of the Yugoslav Communist Party as well as outside." This was taken to mean a campaign to break Tito by all means short of formal war. Mikhail Suslov, the highest Soviet official to attend (he is a member of the Orgburo, next echelon below the Politburo), was reported by returning Cominform delegates to have stated that the Red army itself would never attack Yugoslavia...
Tenderness & Gloom. In Stuempfig's case, romantic art seemed to mean painting that sacrificed everything else to mood. His The Old Man, one of the hits of the exhibition, showed both the strength and weakness of Stuempfig's approach...
Since Frankenberg doesn't mean Pleasure Dome to be profound literary criticism, and since it isn't, it can be judged by only one standard: Does it really help the ordinary intelligent reader-the kind who might tackle a Faulkner novel but shies away from an Eliot poem-to understand and enjoy 20th Century poetry...