Word: meaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mean," said the jazzman, pointing to the text, "we goof around here...
...That doesn't mean," says Hughes, "that there aren't good Russian scientists. There are, but we have more. However, they're training more people, making their students spend longer hours at work, and putting more money into science than...
...conditions at all times and adjust in a way we consider most satisfactory for the economy." FRB's reduction from 3½% to 3% in the rediscount rate, said Martin, was merely a "signal that we saw some change in the business situation. But this doesn't mean that inflation won't occur, or that deflation is the order of the day. I don't think we've licked either...
...mean if you stay up all night, how do you get to your classes...
...imaginative urge to reinterpret-these the tired and weary student has gradually lost. He has been wrung dry, and, knowingly or not, he often finishes his thesis with the firm resolve to have no more to do with 'scholarship.' " Nor is the emerging Ph.D. "what we mean by an educated man, a man who combines wide-ranging learning with an attitude of simplicity and vividness, and who commingles good taste with an excited curiosity. Rather, he likely has become a sort of expert plumber in the card catalogues . . . and neither as teacher nor scholar will he throw...