Word: means
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boss know what his man was saying? Obviously he did, and presumably Sawyer had his blessing. That did not mean that Harry Truman would hesitate to plaster the "special interests" with fresh taunts if politics dictated. It did mean that like many successful politicians, Harry Truman was capable of contradictions within himself, and of trying to run in two directions at once. It also suggested that the Fair Deal was proposing a guarded and perhaps temporary truce. Business would remain wary. But in what often seemed a friendless world, a pat on the head was better than a savagely aimed...
...wealthiest, had taken to the microphone before some 17,000 Texans in Houston and Galveston, had blasted again & again at the philosophy and practice of the welfare state. To reporters he unblinkingly declaimed: "I don't want a thing to do with politics-but that does not mean that I won't comment on political issues...
What did the word "others" mean? Other NROTC men? Other undergraduates? Wednesday night the Bureau of Naval Personnel wired the CRIMSON: "Word 'others' refers to all other persons, regardless of naval or academic affiliations, within the recollection of the individual, who are personally known by him and who are also personally known by him and who are also personally known by him to be or have been similarly associated or acting...
...interpretation of the clause. But in Washington last night the Navy's candidate training director Comm. L. C. Heinz said he thought the Navy could now "start applying the clause now that the point of controversy has been cleared up." But Heinz was not sure what this application would mean...
...would seem, at first glance, that no man could write a book called "Here is New York" and have it mean anything. To talk sense about a city compassing 8,000,000 more or less neurotic individuals, 8,000,000 different dreams, and 8,000,000 secret vices would appear impossible and any attempt in that direction preposterous...