Word: means
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only insider on all University affairs, self-styled Harvard's leading instructor of the backward, and a chimpanzee raiser of no mean ability...
...allowed to transfer to the eastern boat and so get a chance to acquire Harvard accent and Yale sneers. Accordingly, a swap was arranged which was not so successful as a swap, since one of the California never appeared in eastern climes. He was a gridster of no mean ability and it is believed that he was picked up by a man named Crisler, who was looking for tie-layers at a small junction in New Jersey...
...awake was not only the north and Shanghai fronts, but the city of Haichow where there was as yet no fighting at all, a seaport south of the Shantung peninsula, connected with railroads at Peiping and Nanking at Suchow. Japanese warships were off Haichow harbor, but did this mean more than the blockade of Chinese ports? If Japan had enough men to spare to land a third army at Haichow she could cut off help from Nanking to the Chinese armies of the north...
Fort himself believed that the earth was nearly stationary, that the stars were quite close and nothing but holes in a gelatinous shell around the earth, that objects might be instantaneously moved from place to place by "teleportation." But he once denied "that I mean anything by anything...
...returning to a certain extent to the life for which I was preparing myself before the war and which I exchanged for active politics. My life has now again returned to the academic sphere, but in spite of all contradictory rumors this does not mean that I am not following events closely...