Word: means
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...United States meant relief for the immediate economic needs of the island. "The United States has furnished foodstuffs cheaper than any country in the world, and can continue to do so, and we propose that the suffering, helpless Porto Ricans shall have them free of duty. But our plan means also cheap wearing apparel, cheap building material and cheap manufacturing material. To levy a duty upon these essentials of economic and social development would mean suffering to the already impoverished island more than commensurate with any revenue received...
...nude," says Lisa S. Bromer '88-'91, a Dudley Co-op resident, "and...I mean look at this, my plants are blooming that I planted last year...
...most important work of Yale. This is just as true a statement as it is an unexpected one for an executive to make. Let this always be remembered by those who manage Yale and there need be no fear. If this idea is properly held to, it may mean refusing hundreds of thousands of dollars given for the purposes which are not consistent with development of the high sentiment of Yale's community life. Such refusal would be worth that which can not be measured in money...
...inevitably to come, the real contest is between what may broadly be called the Common Law of England--a system of which our own government is a direct development--and the ideals of law and government, which have dominated continental Europe. In the end, the failure of England would mean disaster to the ideals of law and of morality which are the foundations of our own national existence...