Word: means
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Allies win the war, it won't necessarily mean a new heaven on earth; but if Hitler wins, it will mean a new hell. We must resist. We must throw aside the pitiful hypocrisy of our neutrality," Lewis Mumford said yesterday...
...wingback in signal drill. Joe has been bothered by a number of bruises sustained in the Princeton game which have slowed him up considerably. Since Harlow wants to have his plays run at top speed during signals, he is giving Lee the call for the sessions. This does not mean, however, that Lee will rate the whistle over Joe on Saturday...
...Thank you all, good people, for the support you have given me," Mike told his friends. "You have seen the low, mean things which that man Willy Flanagan would stoop to in order to defeat me. We have won in spite...
...this expedient is made a part of regular policy, it will mean in effect that in certain classes two associate professors will be appointed in place of one full professor...
...discovery, nearer home, concerned the Cepheid variables-a class of stars, mostly yellow supergiants, which fluctuate regularly in brightness. The Harvardmen noticed that in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a neighbor galaxy to the Milky Way, the bigger Cepheids were mostly concentrated toward the centre of the galaxy. This may mean that they were brought there by the operation of galactic gravity over a long time, or that when the stars originally were formed from the parent nebula, conditions favored the formation of big stars in the region of greatest density. In either case the Cepheid variables seem destined to shed...