Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...going to have a government of Americans. I do not mean necessarily men of a long residence, who have been hare for generations, but I mean men willing to adhere to the constitution and laws of this country, who stand for our ideals. We have need of a number of things that we ought to dispose of, and the first is the League of Nations. We want action on it. My own views you are all familiar with, as expressed in my letter to Senator Borah, who has begun to take a touching interest in all my affairs. I told...
...will be necessary, and about 80 per cent, of these will come from the Officers' Reserve Corps. The men will be instructed to keep free from vice disease, which is a very important thing, for vice diseases lie at the very fountain head of human life. What does it mean to the young men to get one such period of this training? In the first place, it means democracy, living together with other men; it means vocational improvement, educational improvement, and a general physical clean up and a fresh start. It seems to me that heat must mean a great...
...mean to say that this is considered a good drink? Frankly, I cannot understand its world-wide reputation.' Then looking at my sister, I saw that her face betrayed no enthusiasm, either...
...ideal we advocate a happy mean--say a quarter limit and twenty percent. Ideals were the possession of another less mysterious generation. Our free and Puritanical ancestors with their toddy...
...unsettled conditions, other attribute it to the tendency in recent years toward too many social activities, while a few hold that the modern college student comes to his Alma Mater without any definite purpose and never acquired one, or as one editor puts it "college-bred seems to mean a four year's loaf." However, they all agree that it is a fact that college men and women are narrow...