Word: means
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when Undersecretary of Agriculture Rexford Guy Tugwell called a trade meeting of Philadelphia and Boston poultrymen for Nov. 26, the cork of their wrath popped out of the bottle of their indignation. Said Charles F. Bauman, secretary of the Philadelphia dealers: "He's just plain dumb or plumb mean. Either it's stupidity or else he knows Nov. 26 is one of the times we work day & night. If Mr. Tugwell doesn't know that Thanksgiving Day [Nov. 28] means turkey or some kind of fowl to most of the U. S. what right...
...late Alfred Bernhard Nobel, inventor of dynamite, made much of his money in munitions, provided in his will that the prize fund should be transferred to "safe securities," which the executors have interpreted to mean first mortgage bonds. The Peace Prize is awarded by a committee chosen by the Norwegian Storting (Parliament), while the other four prizes (Literature, Medicine, Physics, Chemistry) are determined by Swedes. Three weeks ago the Committee took pained notice of a story in the Schwarze Korps, official organ of Adolf Hitler's special guard, warning the Peace Prize Committee "not to provoke the German people...
However, they have succeeded in collecting an arsenal consisting of a .33 target pistol, three regulation Springfield Army rifles, and a sixty-pound bow with an archer of no mean ability to go with it, and they are confident that "he who laughs last laughs best...
Under the new lenient regulations, students will undoubtedly cut their classes before and after the Thanksgiving holiday. Let us hope this will not mean the return of stringent regulations on vacation cuts, of monitorships, and of the other accoutrements of schoolboy disciplinarianism. The solution lies not through the chastisement of students, through turning the colleges into a concentration camp, but through the remodelling along modern and logical lines of the vacation itself, making it last from Thanksgiving through the next week...
...with Aristotle. And his importance does not stop with his philosophical contributions. There is no field of knowledge where his influence is not felt. Dante is a closed book without some knowledge of Aristotelianism; and many a passage of Chaucer and Shakespeare and Milton are half-meaning to us unless we know something of this famous philosopher. When we speak of "liberal education," or "golden mean" or the "theory" of a policy as contrasted with the "practice" we are using words which derive their significance from the part they play in Aristotle's philosophy. As for politics, in view...