Word: means
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus went the talk, the distilled ideas danced circles in the air, and there Falstaff stood, an outsider, one of the happy few. He just had to cultivate a frustration, if only a mild one; and this was no mean commission. Falstaff gathered his vague resolution and tried to desire...
Newman has found prepositions especially unruly. There are about 25 of them, and their meanings overlap irrationally. The preposition through has at least 13 meanings. It can mean by use of (to speak through an interpreter) and finished with (through with work). Newman proposes to replace unruly prepositions with new Ruly terms that have single meanings. Howby, for instance, will mean mode of proximate cause. Sometimes it will replace by (take by force), or with (to kill with kindness), or through (to cure through surgery). But it will always have the same basic meaning, so that even the most literal...
...delegation of some 10,000 Venetians who came to Rome to see him crowned, he switched to Venetian dialect, broke into their appreciative applause with the words: "If you start that kind of thing, this audience will never finish. So please don't interrupt me-I mean...
What will the jet revolution mean to the aviation industry and the U.S. public? Items...
...shape of things that have or might come. And sometimes Huxley still sounds like the brave young worldling who wrote Crome Yellow. Most original Huxleyism is a suggested law on the lines of habeas corpus, which would be a habeas mentem for the human race. Roughly translated it would mean the right for all to say: keep your dirty hands off my mind...