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Word: meannesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...Sears, Roebuck store lectured his employees: "This week we dropped another $11,000 from our previous week ... I must ask you to watch every penny, be it in the cash register or in the electric bill. We can't stand waste of any kind-it will mean additional layoffs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tale of a City | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...This phrase in the Vatican's official transTation did not mean that the Pope knew what the Communists had done to Mindszenty but was not free to reveal it. In his Italian draft, the Pope used the phrase influenze inconjessabili-unspeakable influences. What these were, said a Vatican official, the Pope did not know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: When God Is in Exile | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

There was no disagreement on the virtues of "democratic representation." The Union group felt, however, that an elected body just wouldn't work in the Yard, maintaining that new freshmen can't get well enough acquainted in two weeks to make an election mean very much. Yet this is an organizational problem, and its solution depends on the proctors, who must design a program of introductory meetings to prepare the incoming class for an election...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charter for the Yard | 2/19/1949 | See Source »

...mean to say that a newspaper article should never use the worlds Negro and colored. They are words describing one aspect of a person's physical appearance and should be used whenever that aspect is significant. If, for instance, Mr. Halloway had been designated by the Society for the Advancement of Colored Peoples as its outstanding student of the year, it would have been appropriate to describe him as a Negro, just as in an article about a man who couldn't buy shoes at the Coop because of his abnormally large foot it would be appropriate to mention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freedom From Prejudice | 2/16/1949 | See Source »

When their shots began to click, Harvard began to hustle--and hustle may mean the end of the losing streak before the last six games run out. HARVARD (53) FG F T Rockewell, rf 0 0 0 Petrillo 1 0 2 Bramhall, lf 6 1 13 Prior, c 0 5 5 Smith 4 0 8 Covey, rg 1 1 3 Croshy 7 2 16 Davis, lg 2 1 5 Gannon 0 1 1 Totals...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Lions Nudge Out Quintet in Arena Heartbreaker, 57-53 | 2/16/1949 | See Source »

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