Word: mean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing, it's not easy to size up your opposition. Comparative times mean very little, because weather and currents change from day to day and from course to course. For instance, no one at the boathouse is wringing his hands over the fact that Yale covered a mile-and-three quarters last Saturday in a minute's less time than the Crimson. The Elis were paddling down the Harlom River, as experience more nearly akin to shooting the rapids than rowing on a lake...
LIEUTENANT: "I mean important things...
Stassen's headlong drive did not mean that he had the nomination in his pocket. But professional politicians who had said "He's a good man but he can't be nominated," hurried to take a second look. They also looked hard and long in the direction of Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg, whom Stassen never failed to praise and who might be the ultimate beneficiary of the Stassen strength...
Traditionally, most Canadians have opposed outright union with the U.S., whether economic or political. More recently they have favored a close working agreement which they call "economic integration." By this, they mean: 1) letting each country produce the things it can produce best and selling them in a combined market; 2) cutting tariffs selectively, here & there-but not wholesale...
...enthusiasm and regularly leafed through Southern history. As for Mamma, nothing cheered her so much as an American visitor. Writes daughter Anne: "She felt herself to be an island around which surged forty million incurious French. . . . When she spoke of herself as a Southerner, these foreigners understood her to mean South America and that was a bad start, so Mamma never brought the French into her universe and was never part of theirs." When she died in 1914 as the Germans advanced, "she took everything with her: the small safe world built around us by her love. A world where...