Word: meant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hoped for better things, the events of the past weeks have been dark ones upon the Western Front. Where yesterday the battle raged around Cambrai and far east of the Somme, the opposing armies are now aligned upon the Messines Ridge. That the tide of battle has meant a serious reversal for the Allies, no explanation or expression of hope may minimize. The Allies have been driven back and even now are struggling at a point beyond which the German hordes may possibly pour to the sea. The war has been indefinitely prolonged, and its final verdict has been pressed...
...Responsible statesmen must now everywhere see, if they never saw before, that no peace can rest securely upon political or economic restrictions meant to benefit some nations and cripple or embarrass others...
...interesting to note how the term 'slacker', which you are now using over here in its earliest sense, has spread to include different classes of men who, though they may be in the service, are not doing their utmost toward winning the war. First the word slacker meant the man who dodged the enlistment office and the draft; then it was applied to those who secured soft berths in the service, such as patrol-boat jobs or office work, when they were well fitted for active service in the line; and now those who have had college training...
...present tonight, the military mass meeting, which was to have taken place immediately after Colonel Blake's lecture on "Small Arms Firing," has been postponed until a later date. The lecture itself, however, will be held this evening at 7 o'clock, as scheduled, and although it is meant for members of Military Science 1, men in the other course are invited to be present. Colonel Blake is planning to use several types of rifle in illustrating his talk. The weekly lecture by Lieutenant Morize before the advanced course will be held Thursday evening as usual in the New Lecture...
...informal" system as originally practised by Yale, Harvard and Princeton, though well meant, has been widely censured as not furnishing the necessary incentive for athletics. For then University to "about-face" now, acknowledge that she was wrong and begin anew, will be no disgrace. It is the only logical step open...