Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wife who is a part-TIME reader answered 119 out of the 200 questions correctly. I, who read all the TIME, answered 148 correctly. When I say "correctly" I mean the answer was the same as the one you gave, and all the same. Any opinion or information of ours, correct as it might be, did not count so far as the game was concerned; "part right" was counted "wrong." J. J. LIPSEY Colorado Springs...
...certain troops of a certain foreign power that his men ought not to fire at a group of Chinese. The advice was taken, the Chinese spared; but the marine was later rebuked by a U.S. officer for speaking to a foreign officer. "Aw," he replied, "I didn't mean no harm...
...method is simple. He gets the cockles of the audiences' hearts working emotionally with a few hymns and one of his famed talks ("From Gypsy Tent to-Pulpit" or "Three Years with the Boys in France"); then he asks all who "intelligently feel the need of Jesus, and mean to give themselves to Him, body, soul and spirit," to rise in prayer. He does not make them trample moldy sawdust before the public gaze. His converts are led into the "inquiry room" where pastors and personal workers act as nurses after a surgical operation, where they are told...
Because a Sophomore enters the competition tomorrow does not mean that he will be under any handicap when the four assistant business managers are chosen in June. No Freshmen have been elected to the business board...
...Arms Embargo was lifted. The removal of this secondary guarantee against the indiscriminate delivery of rifles to disaffected elements in Mexico quite clearly is a warning that unless U. S. demands are satisfied the Arms Embargo itself will be lifted. That, as the State Department well knows, will mean revolution, chaos, and the creation of some bandit as President who can be relied on to protect and abet the oil and land interests if his pockets are kept well filled with gold...