Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what did the great abundance mean to the nation? What did it mean to high prices? If the law of supply & demand were allowed to work, prices would already be dropping, some farmers would be facing financial losses. No one wanted the farmers to lose money. So the law of supply & demand had been amended by the law which said that the Government would guarantee the farmer certain prices...
...wondrous beauty . . . Many old established residents . . . have kept up the cultivation of goldfish in their private pools. In my courtyard there are several dozen fish, including the rare Red Dragon-Eye and the Five-Flowered Phoenix ... If this ridiculous foreign project [DDT spraying] is carried out, it will mean the end of all Peiping's goldfish. Then what man will be able to sit under his peng on a warm summer day and study the gentle undulations of fins and tails? The very thought of these beautiful water creatures turning on their backs and floating to the surface fills...
...London, George Bernard Shaw's advice of the week was to avoid war by producing a dictionary of political terms, in which the meaning of each word would be made quite clear. "The matter is extremely urgent," declared Shaw. ". . . Negotiation is impossible unless the parties use the same words for the same things and understand what the words mean . . . I myself find it impossible to make myself understood . . . Even liars need a language that will enable them to lie unambiguously...
...piano, trying out his tune on his new partner. Lyricist Sammy Cahn, who used to play fiddle in a burlesque house, grunted: "It seems to me I've heard that song before." Before Tunesmith Jule Styne could think of something nasty to reply, Sammy Cahn said hastily: "I mean it's a good title -I've Heard That Song Before." According to Messrs. Styne & Cahn, this is how the title to their first hit was born. Since then most of their major decisions, and the titles of their best songs, have come like that. Like their brothers...
...romance with Emma Calve, the opera star. "Mr. Higgins," wrote one society editor in 1898, "is not only the richest, but the handsomest unmarried New Yorker. He is a devoted golfer, an expert cross-country rider, a 'good gun,' a skillful fisherman, and a yachtsman of no mean seamanship. Sartorially, he is all that can be desired...