Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mean I am sure "cottage." There arc no huts in Scotland, sirs, unless in the extremely remote sections of the Western Highlands...
...some other world. There is something obnoxious to workaday correspondents about a man who conceives the Press to have more than the communicative function. A Bell feat, and the significance attached by him to it, in the year (1924) before Publisher Lawson's death, were typical of what newsmen mean when they say: "Old Bell's at it again...
...confused in arrangement. The Girard family wants to marry Daughter Geraldine to her diamond-studded admirer, Mark Chandler. He happens to be the boss of both Father Girard and of William Wells, a callow underling whom Daughter Geraldine really loves. If Daughter Geraldine marries the importunate Chandler, it will mean limousines and regal delicacies for all. But if she marries the struggling Wells, according to her ambitious mother and young sister, the frustrate Chandler will immediately oust his successful rival and possibly Father Girard. Young Sister Elizabeth talks about sex right out in the open and vents a precocious materialism...
...rationalization idea underlying church-union plans had its most extreme expressions in the words of Philosophy Professor Holmes: "The terms you use do not mean anything to many young people; they sound to them, sentimental and vague. I have taken down a few statements made by other speakers such...
...spiritual character,' 'spiritual value,' and 'joint worship at the Lord's table.' I have never heard anyone explain what those things mean. "We need to talk out of our own experience, not in the language of the past. Instead of saying 'The Lord is my shepherd' you ought to be saying 'God is my storage battery that renews my strength' or 'God is my low gear that takes me up the hills.' "I do not believe the Church now, or its representatives look upon its function as saving...