Word: means
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Utilizing the famous scientific sampling method of surveying, the CRIMSON first approached that home of would-be Harvard co-eds, Radcliffe, where a typical cross-section was corralled. "What does Spring mean to you?" was the first query. The cross-section blushed, giggled a little, and turned away bashfully. "Oh, come on!" she was urged...
...What does Spring mean to you?" they were asked. "Beer jackets, Bock beer, and braids," they chirped, curtseying. The survey asked them if they didn't yearn for Yale on warm Spring nights. "Hell, no!" they replied peevishly. "What do you yearn for, then?" asked the survey...
...police, into the court cheering section for Stalin, thence down into the cork-lined cellars where this week the 18 were due to be noiselessly executed. Rozengolts' protestation that his children are loud in the Stalin chorus may save them, but the piece of consecrated bread may well mean death for his wife. Nothing was known last week, nothing is ever published, about the fate of members of the families of men shot after the trials in Moscow. In the Soviet Union they are subject to confiscations of property and transportation to exile in such places as Siberia...
...Whitney records resulted in a hurried meeting of the Exchange governing committee. In open-mouthed horror, it heard the charges against Dick Whitney and then preferred the Exchange's most serious accusation - "conduct apparently contrary to just and equitable principles of trade." Next morning, well knowing it might mean the end of the Exchange's claim that it requires no added SEC supervision, President Gay grimly mounted the rostrum of the Exchange and suspended Richard Whitney & Co. for insolvency (TIME, March 14). Wall Street's first reaction was outright incredulity that "The Corner" had not bailed...
they will see that this Rebecca is a $2,400-a-week Hollywood specialist with no mortgage to pay off, no mean Minnie Smellie to complicate her life, no need at all for a Mr. Aladdin to make her dreams come true...