Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British proposals, France had a ready answer. So far as the eastern frontier was concerned, she welcomed British support, but France had other obligations. She was bound by treaties of alliance to Poland and Czecho-Slovakia, whose western frontiers Germany evidently did not recognize. Premier Herriot took this to mean that Germany would seek revision of the territorial clauses of the Versailles Treaty* and that France would be bound to attack such an attitude...
...Carolina telegraphed Governor Walker congratulating him upon the "wisdom and patriotism" displayed by his request. President Randolph and his committee held counsel, withdrew the requisition papers, adding, with arrogant explicitness, that they wished "to give notice that the withdrawal of this application for extradition does not in any way mean that there is the remotest possibility of Borglum ever resuming work on this Memorial . . . and we desire further to state unequivocally that our assent to the withdrawal of the requisition does not effect the final disposition of the criminal cases against Borglum, which disposition will be left absolutely with...
Apparently Freshmen were chastened in purse as well as in spirit, for rule number nine reads, "Freshmen are to find the rest of the scholars with bats and balls and footballs." This does not mean, as many Freshman of today might leap to conclude, that they had to seek out their mentors with bat and ball. It merely explains that they were expected to supply their superiors with such articles upon demand...
...first place one ought to know what all these subjects mean. Everyone knows what English is (perhaps that is why so many concentrate in it); but a great many men would get E if they were given a test which required them to define all the words from Anthropology to Zoology--which are names of departments under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The man who cannot read the bill of fare may get something to eat, but he cannot be said to have chosen his courses...
...Criticism, nowadays, doesn't mean too much. No actor can please all the critics. But I'll venture that if all American critics were brought to one performance of my play, I could please 90 per cent of them. Most actors, however, don't read criticisms for any reason except that they are vain, and the critic praises them because it makes his job more pleasant than censure would...