Word: mean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Therefore, we should not fall into a Communist trap and refuse indefinitely any diplomatic recognition of Communist China. Eventual recognition (which does not mean moral approval) will be an essential step in any effort to support the American position in China. To withhold recognition, beyond the time when our State Department is able to work it out, would be to sell out our business firms trading with China, to desert the 1500 American missionaries still in the field, to surrender a century's investment of good will, and so play into Russia's hands. John K. Fairbank Professor of History
...course when the Nieman Fellows talk about competition they're not worrying about marks. But just the same the students keep them on their toes. One fellow goes to the blackboard regularly in beginning French, and, of the 11 in Merk's course, six took the hour exam. The mean mark was B minus, and only one received...
...battle of Facts v. Ideas, Educator Hutchins had taken the side of ideas. This did not mean that he rejected facts. This week he marked his 20th anniversary at Chicago, the university had reached a height in science (i.e., the pursuit of facts) such as it had never achieved before. But Hutchins thoroughly intended that students at Chicago would be equipped to make a sound search for the truth about the facts...
...Groceryman Paul Simpson, who learned his trade behind an A & P counter before he opened his two Atlanta supermarkets, said: "I welcome A & P competition because ... A & P taught me to serve the public better." Wrote an independent New Orleans supermarket operator: "Destroying the A & P would mean eliminating competition...
...screenplay leaves nothing behind in its tour through the junkyard of old sports movies. When Rooney starts working in Thomas Mitchell's garage, that pulp-story fixture, the star driver with the mean streak, turns up every few minutes to trade bogus-looking punches with him. Some good dirt track races go sour because the drivers must constantly snarl, wave and shake their fists at each other. After winning a few big races, visualized with the weary device of flashing sports pages on the screen, Rooney's head swells, he hits the bottle, is ostracized for crashing into...