Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Norris, trust buster and Muscle Shoals expert. He was simply a Congressman-the Rev. Melvin Or lando McLaughlin, onetime parson. Before the day was over, politicians near and far learned that the Rev. Mr. McLaughlin had discussed pa tronage with the President. Could this, they asked, possibly mean that Mr. Coolidge had decided to snub the Nebraska Senators? Already four nominal Republican Senators (LaFollette, Brookhart, Ladd, Frazier) have been ejected from the party. The Democrats are almost certain to gain ground in the 1926 elections. Could the President possibly afford to cast off even the partial support...
...Senator has refused to sit. idly by, for his interest in the conviction of the oil men is perhaps even greater than theirs. He is fighting for his place in history. What will his face?"the most evenly proportioned, the best balanced face" in the Senate of the present?mean in the history books...
...days later, Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux faced the Senators, 287 of whom, out of a total of 423, had condemned him five years before for treason (TIME, June 2). M. Caillaux expounded his financial policy. The Senate listened attentively, deferentially, but said nothing. This was taken to mean that the Upper House was prepared to give the Finance Minister a chance before passing judgment either on him or the Government...
...based not only upon course grades, but also upon work completed under tutorial guidance? If tutorial work were definitely taken into account at the college office in the reckoning of a student's rank, we should expect, for psychological reasons, a stimulation of interest in that work. Does this mean that course study would be unduly neglected? That would naturally depend upon the relative importance of the two phases of study...
Every member of the Why-nots wears about his neck a brass collar on which is engraved the motto of the tribe: "Be Thyself!" This excellent precept is understood to mean: "Be different from everyone else!" So great is their zeal that they wear their hair long and unshorn, go without hats in all weathers, assemble to discuss poetry and free love when others are attending an athletic festival, and flood the bookstalls with tracts denouncing everybody and everything...