Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much this kind of work can mean to the distressed of Europe is illustrated by another letter we have received as a result of the Zielezinski story -this one from a Polish D.P. now living in England. He writes...
...fits of firing & hiring that she sometimes later regretted. "The trouble with me," she once reflected, "is that I am a vindictive old shanty-Irish bitch. I just cannot have friends for more than six months." She had to drink, she said, "because I have to forget all the mean things I have done...
Before Petelka can sell linguists on his system, he will have to clear up several points. Among them: 1) What would his system do about homonyms-words with several different meanings (run has 41 separate meanings as a noun, 49 as a verb, five as an adjective)? 2) What number would make democracy mean the same thing to an American and a Russian...
...hokum, but it is the fountain of youth." Reported Dairyman Wilfred Schobel: "This stuff makes the coats of horses and cows shine like mirrors. Makes cows give more milk and eat less. Makes 'em more quiet, too. Took the wiggle out of one real mean cow I own. She just stands there now-all full of the master cell-and behaves...
...burned out before World War I. It is not so fashionable to say that now: in recent years even some hostile critics concede that Stravinsky's fire is still burning. Says Composer Aaron Copland, who is not hostile: "All the other composers over 50 -the famous ones, I mean-are turning out more or less what is expected of them . . . Only Stravinsky [writes so] that no one can predict just where he will be taking us next...