Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviets mean this talk of peaceful competition, then they have nothing to fear from the impartial rules, impartially judged, which will make such peaceful competition possible...
...class will be no more able to enter the graduate schools of their choice than students in the same percentile at present. Larger honor lists, therefore, are misleading. Even more, they are strong proof of Harvard's failure to raise its own academic standards. The list itself does not mean that much; it could be changed to include only students in Group II. But this would vindicate a chance remark of Professor Owen, who commented in a History 142 lecture that the "gentleman's C" of yesteryear is now a "gentleman's B minus." If more students each year make...
...reintroduced work norms and extra pay for "overfulfillment of the quota"-devices that had been abandoned in the heady, doctrinaire days of the great leap. This doubtless shocked the ideological zealots who only a few months ago were boasting that the slavery of the people's communes would mean realization of the Marxist ideal-"from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" -ahead even of Russia. That boast is no longer heard...
...increasing defense efforts plus rising capital investment will boost gross national product from $475 billion to an even $500 billion. By 1970, ten years later, U.S. production will have soared to $750 billion for the greatest growth in any decade in U.S. history. To U.S. consumers, the growth will mean $355 billion available in disposable income to spend on goods and services in 1965. Five years after that, in 1970, the well-heeled consumer will be spending at the rate of $436 billion a year-a sum equal to the entire U.S. gross national product last year...
...Well, I mean, all kinds of interest-objects. Is that a paperweight on the mantel?" Vag said, as he advanced toward...