Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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General View. For a number of years the Navy has held that our helium monopoly meant supremacy in the air as far as dirigibles were concerned. But recently the attitude of the Bureau of Aeronautics has changed and its officers in various public utterances have advocated a return to hydrogen...
...author at great pains. This dialect is in Mr. Mackaye's words "a noble illiteracy," a language "more flexible than that of the average university graduate," showing "richness of thought and imagination." It is native speech "undiluted by the Ink of the academic or journalistic." Clearly a language meant to be spoken, not printed, and this makes it very difficult for the reader of the printed version to enter into the spirit of either language or play...
...that of the respective methods of teaching and study. At the English University a student is freer to set his own standard of work than here at Cambridge. His freedom, to begin with, comes, in selecting his college and secondly in his choice of a tutor. It is not meant by the latter that one can deliberately pick out the instructor with whom he wishes to work, but he does select his field of study and in that way is likely to be aware of the man who will tutor him. So on the one hand an undergraduate might stay...
...dramatic scene that forced into retirement the "Wise Old Man of Greece" (Venizelos), a man who means as much to Greece as Woodrow Wilson meant to the U. S., took place in a little bedroom in the ex-Premier's residence at Athens. Here four doctors examined him and after a muttered consultation in one corner of the room they returned to the bedside and told their patient that he must give up his political duties and quit Athens for his health's sake...
This of course was demned foolishness. There has to be limitation somewhere or...A quarter of each class is on probation now and the Dean's Office is overworked as it is, looking after them. We told him so, but it meant nothing...