Word: means
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the University's standpoint student fire education does not necessarily mean public service. This is due to the perennial menace of the volunteer fireman who belongs to the inebriated or unique sense of humor category. Four extinguishers were refilled yesterday because of week-end activity by this group. Veritable chaos would undoubtedly result from false alarms were officials to make extensive additions to the present stock of boxes...
...follows the Faculty system, the new plan will probably mean that employees on the payroll who have annual incomes below $2000 shall contribute about two to five percent monthly on their salaries towards a fund realizable on retirement in the 60's. In the event of death, the money goes to the employee's family...
Whatever this might mean to U. S. citizens, it was recognized by British reader: as a dignified intimation to the President that he can ignore U. S. isolationists and stretch firm hands across the Atlantic to support Britain should she be again challenged by Mussolini or threatened by Hitler or the agents of Stalin. The Manchester Guardian advised the President that he will be compelled to face the issue of amending the Constitution and reducing the Supreme Court's powers. "lf," cried the Guardian, "the first American President with the overwhelming support both of the people and of Congress...
...goading ambition, Swinnerton gives over most of the remainder to polite, discreet, tedious descriptions of his writing friends and acquaintances. Not in direct, slapdash conflict, but in a subtle resentment at intellectual slights, does Swinnerton reveal the hazards of his literary life. Thus he rails against "sleek, conspiratorial, mean-spirited bigotries," without denning them, against reviewers who resent his "rise in the world," against old friends who feel insulted if they do not get inscribed copies of his books, but never acknowledge them if they do. But his clearest picture of the literary jungle is in his account...
Brewers' Banner. The rising tide of champagne did not mean ebb tide for beer. Last week The American Brewer estimated the 1936 U. S. consumption at 53,000,000 bbls., enough to give each voter in last week's election 388 bottles. Best since Repeal, 1936 is no banner beer year. In 1914, nickel beer enabled U. S. brewers to sell 66,933,394 bbls., an all-time high...