Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world a pact renouncing war as an instrument of national policy the American government is engaged in operations in Nicaragua which many people, both in the United States and abroad, consider as a war. . . . This fact eloquently shows that a mere pact renouncing war (whatever that may mean) as an instrument of national policy (whatever that may mean) is not going to prevent a nation from undertaking operations which a considerable proportion of the world may be unable to discriminate from war. Something more is wanted...
...Rowlands is laying a kerbstone along the edge of the Row. Exalted Personage (pulling up his mount): "What is being done here?" Laborer Rowlands (vexed at the question, and not looking up): "What d'you th-" (Then, stammering, as he sees by whom he is addressed) :"I . . . . I mean . . . . I am laying a kerbstone." Exalted Personage (preparing to canter urbanely away): "A kerbstone? Ah, a useful improvement." Laborer Rowlands (wiping cold sweat from his brow, as the hoofbeats recede): "Lor! 'Is Majesty...
...other words: learning should mean discovering how to do. The element of "discovery" is held high if not paramount by Educator Dewey. He declares: "While immature students will not make discoveries from the standpoint of advanced students, they make them from their own standpoint whenever there is genuine learning...
These suggestions, however, do not mean that there ought to be no contact whatever between student boards of editors, and deans, faculty advisers, instructors in journalism and other officers. Far from it. Indeed, I believe that student editors will seek such advice and will appeal to maturer judgment to a far greater degree when such consultation is voluntary and spontaneous, than when they feel that the adviser or censor is their natural enemy and that it is part of the game to trick him by any legitimate or illegitimate means...
Protectorate. Among Chinese the threat from Tokyo was generally taken to mean that Japanese Prime Minister Baron Giichi Tanaka now purposes to carry his famed "positive policy" toward China to the extreme of establishing a de facto Japanese Protectorate over Manchuria...