Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years make as much progress, men will have a reason for being proud of their sex. It is men nowadays who brush the dust off their shoes with their long pants. It is men who have to fasten innumerable buttons before their dress is complete. Fashions are no mean part of civilization. But report them as news, not for the purpose of enabling your readers to wear the latest. I do not have the time to read fashion magazines. That is the very reason why I expect TIME to keep me informed. Report whenever there is anything to report. Whether...
...pool and card rooms its fairly attractive furnishings give the Union the facilities to be what it calls itself--a club, rather than a mere allunct of the H. A. A., or a housing for mass meetings. Intelligent direction of the governing board may very possibly make it mean more to a great part of its members than an extra ten dollars on the term bill. Good speakers might aid in bringing them there...
...ideographs representing the words sachiko and hisa mean "heavenly" and "long-enduring," and may be translated as Steadfast Helper, Eternal Happiness or Ever Benign. No-Miya denotes Imperial rank, such as Royal or Imperial Highness in the Occident...
...Maps mean very little if anything in relation to getting where one wants to so, because inevitably one finds oneself back where one started, in exactly the same spot only several hours later. The best, course of action, therefore is if one can afford it, a taxi, thus enabling a person to see many quaint spots of the city and to experiment in the naive taxi rates in Boston, a system which has its basis on the theories that every movement of the meter has a meaning all its own, that cobblestones and hills increase the distance in dollars...
...Russians for "publishing to the world a lying statement that Ramsay MacDonald, M. P., shammed illness and went to America [TIME, May 30] to escape participating in the discussion of the Trades Union bill." Then, raising his voice, he ejaculated: "I say that such con-duct is damnable, mean and con-temptible...