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Word: meanly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...population are under arms in the control of the several tuchuns (war lords) with conflicting ambitions. In the country there is a strong anti-foreign sentiment which in the south has been encouraged by the Bolsheviks, although the Chinese are too ignorant as a body for communism to mean anything to them. Then there are the foreign colonies and footholds of the powers, and their diplomatic representatives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Historic Conference? | 8/31/1925 | See Source »

...From mean boarding houses walked poor Greeks and other underpaid theologs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: At Stockholm | 8/31/1925 | See Source »

...said a black cat's- / mean bone. I swear to God my man's got a black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Illicit | 8/24/1925 | See Source »

Teaching Mrs. Coolidge to swim doesn't mean a thing to me. I'm not all athrill when I lift her head or direct her hands. She is to me like every other student...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Coolidge's Week: Aug. 17, 1925 | 8/17/1925 | See Source »

...record brain weight, 74 ounces, was that of Turgeniev, Russian writer. There are records of a few 60-ounce brains, and quite a few in the 50's (including Thackeray, Daniel Webster, Napoleon). But more significant than brain weight are the convolutions of the brain - more convolutions mean more surface area, and the brain thinks on its surface...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: A Will | 8/17/1925 | See Source »

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