Word: means
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American pulpit and university, always powerful molders of public opinion. Within the past few weeks, the leaders of religion and education in this country have spoken with an amazing unanimity in strong support of the Allies. If vehemence is any test of sincerity, these men mean what they...
...sidelined with a body injury, promises to ease Coach Harlow's end problem more than at any time since the advent of Loren MacKinney to the front ranks. Koufman, ineligible last year, was rated the best end on the Freshman squad in 1937, and his presence against Penn will mean much to both the Crimson attack and defense...
What did the hitch about the papers mean? Was Russia just going to march in without treaty formalities? With only a few minutes to spare, the Soviet Minister to Estonia finally drove up to the Foreign Office, ratifications were exchanged and Foreign Minister Karl Selter expressed his perspiring relief. Next thing M. Selter knew, the Soviet Union calmly demanded an extra Red Army base in Estonia not mentioned in the Treaty...
...Admiral Scheer was really the culprit, the Allies had a mean raider to track down. She is one of Germany's three pocket battleships.* Limited under the Treaty of Versailles to "coast defense" vessels not exceeding 10,000 tons, the ingenious Germans effected economies such as substituting welding for riveting, alloys for heavy metal, then armed the vessels to the crow's nests...
Thoreau's modern reputation is a testament to his Yankee stubbornness in sticking to his realistic problem. "I wanted," said Thoreau, "to drive life into a corner and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it ... of if it were sublime, to know it by experience. ... If we are really dying, let us hear the rattle in our throats and feel cold in the extremities; if we are alive, let us go about our business...