Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must be admitted that the orators showed themselves not only scholars but actors of no mean histrionic ability. The thirty-minute harangue was enjoyed by the students. Furthermore the causes for the Civil War now are far better understood by the class than any amount of reading could perhaps have made them...
...stood for Bucharest. Thence Foreign Minister Nicholas Titulescu of Rumania sped, last week, to Rome. Emerging from a lengthy conversation with // Duce he said: "We thoroughly discussed every single problem interesting our two countries and found a perfect identity of view. This is not an idle phrase. I mean it literally. I think I have said plenty...
...them fresh and to give them the hope of advancement. To make this possible, and to prevent interference with courses that have long been given by older members of the Department, it would do no harm to institute a few new courses designed especially for undergraduates. More courses would mean less of the baneful crowding in those already in existence and greater opportunity for individual student as well as for young teacher...
...pointed out that "the trouble with America is that the people do not relax and meditate. Each person should forget his immediate worries for 20 minutes a day, and give himself up to a silent, restful consideration of the goal and purpose of life. Do you understand what I mean?" he asked. "Do not think; do not day-dream; meditate...
...intervene in the internal affairs of another . . .", and meandered on until one member of the committee, Senor Don Orestes Ferrara, Cuban Ambassador to the U. S., was moved to declare: "These projects are so vague that it would be impossible to incorporate them into a treaty which would mean anything...