Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wagoner put it, "is we've got this automobile called democracy-see?-a car called democracy. We've put it here for these people to drive, and we've taught them how to drive, see? But their being able to drive doesn't mean there won't be accidents, does...
...Rinchart Publishing Company has lately brought out on the market a new series of paperbound books which, with the gradually disappearing GI subsidy, is going to mean considerable saving to the undergraduate in the Humanities. Modern Library, which was such a good thing when it first came out, has not only been steadily increasing its prices but lately taken to putting flashy dust-jackets on its issues in an apparent attempt to cover up the deteriorating quality of its insides. The catalogue of Modern Library is still without equal, but Rinchart's thick paper at least allows the student...
...Republican victory would mean control of the nation by Wall Street and the National Association of Manufacturers...
...unpleasantly conspicuous as a nose ring, a lively crack comes forth. But most of The Big Knife is as unfocused as it is violent; it is full of curses not deep but loud, of intemperate and untidy theatrics. And Castle's particular predicament is far too unusual to mean anything. He is surely one of very few heroes in history-even Hollywood history-who have been forced to choose between a prison sentence and $3,744,000. The whole evening, moreover, is an artistic blur-half morality play about saving Castle's soul, half melodrama about saving...
...Administration in charge of Dining Halls has not been asleep to possible improvements in the meal contract system, nor is it, as some would think, hostile to the clubs. The University must consider the effect of a change on the majority of undergraduates, and the optional contract system would mean a considerable increase of meal costs to that majority, without effecting any substantial saving to the minority. College-wide, the interests of the undergraduate are best served by maintaining the 21 meal requirement...