Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opportunity for learning, which the University offers he compared to a machine, and declared that it was meant to be used, and used intelligently by students to cultivate their minds to yield bumper crops for the country and humanity "Throughout the generations", he said, "Harvard has proved to the country the worth of educating its leaders...
...have said in this place before, we are told in the Bible that the Holy Spirit will convince the world of sin, of righteousness and of judgement, by which is meant one's own sin, and the righteousness and judgment of God; but we are too prone to think of someone else's sin, of one's own righteousness, and of judgement by popular vote...
...rather to establish a new system of track which would be self sustaining and which would not depend on preparatory school stars. But in order to attain this purpose it was, to put it paradoxically, of first importance that this particular team he a winner. Success this spring meant and means now that it is gained, that each year more and more new material will be available for track, that each year will be more and more successful. Victory over Princeton and the Intercollegiates started the ball rolling for the track team; acceleration will follow naturally...
...heats for the first schoolboy fours Noble and Greenough came in ahead, winning in 3 minutes and 13 seconds. Cambridge Latin was second and Browne and Nichols reached the finals by the default of the eight it was meant to race...
Remember in the first place that this is not an anthology of modern poetry, so called, or of recent Poetry in general. It is not meant to be, if we may believe the statement on the cover that Mrs. Richards "has gathered about two hundred poems from the foremost poets of today, making her selection not only on the ground of literary excellence, but also for the message of joy, faith and promise that each poem carries." Probably there is a place for this sort of thing; we are acquainted with several middling-to-elderly ladies to whom...