Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Besides being a baseball player, McGrath is a sprinter of no mean ability. He starred in the short runs both at school and in the 1931 winter campaign...
...writing sometimes tends to emphasize the weakness of the great men of the world. It exposes the foibles to the contemptous gaze of the present in a reckless fashion which often fails to make allowances for the greater qualities. The true history of the present day seeks for a mean which presents both sides of the picture, that difficult blend of light and dark which composes the ideal color...
...Pope] did not mean to condemn the Fascist party for monopolizing the education of youth, but simply to insist ... as a Father speaking to his children . .. that education should be effected in a Christian spirit...
...Louis have come many able men. Until last week Henry Summers, 23, was not counted among them. Even when the news reached St. Louis from Kansas City, housewives who had known Henry Summers since he wore rompers looked at each other in amazement. "Why, that Summers boy! Do you mean to tell me-you mean to say that young-I always thought he was a-." On their lips they checked the word "loafer" sometimes applied to Henry Summers, who in St. Louis was often seen dallying in an alley. But success in an alley deserved no opprobrium. Henry Summers...
...mean a leader who will provide incentives to the creative energies of his people, combing the nation over for its creative brains, seeing to it that no atom of genius is allowed to wither in isolation or starve for lack of recognition...