Word: means
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the point of view of the athletes who participate in the various sports in the college the distinction between major and minor seems to mean very little. A soccer player, for instance, takes his training as seriously, is just as worked up over the thought of getting into the Yale game, and will as willingly give his last effort for the cause as any football or hockey enthusiast. In tennis, another of the lesser sports, the team competitor has even more responsibility to keep on the top of his form, since he is individually responsible for the success...
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...Does it mean," he asks, "that President Roosevelt is attempting to secure specific decisions on specific legislation from subservient Justices pledged to render such decisions? If so, the charge encounters the difficulties that Justices, once appointed, are independent of the executive. Experience has shown that the independence will be exercised and that the attempt to predetermine future votes is futile...
...Belgian Chamber. In Brussels, the district contested last week, they won last May 55,500 ballots out of a total of 340,000. This spring it has been Degrelle's boast that he would win 100,000 and it was agreed last week that that would mean a "decisive Rexist victory"-even though the rest of the votes would surely elect Professor van Zeeland...
Desperately homesick, sick of the senseless killing and intrigues, George and Alfred concluded bitterly that "things Americans believed in didn't seem to mean anything in this foreign country." Anti-U. S. feeling, open attacks on U. S. troops reached a peak with the refusal of General Graves to deliver a shipment of guns when he discovered a plot to use them against his own men. But what hurt most was to read in the screaming newspapers from home that all of them, including General Graves, were Bolsheviks to a man. On a railway platform Alfred...