Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...erroneously forgot to call attention to Mr. Robert P. Lamont's most recent and probably most active business connection-Presi-dent of the American Steel Foundries. In your desire for exactitude for such matters, I hope you will take this in the spirit in which it is meant. H. E. MANDEL...
...Theodore Roosevelt Jr. may yet become a governor," said a press despatch from Washington last week. The governorship meant was not that of New York, for which he has campaigned, nor of the Philippines, which he would like to get, but of Porto Rico. President Hoover, said reports, had asked Porto Ricans how they would like Col. Roosevelt. . . . Last fortnight a cable from Hong Kong to Manhattan said: GREAT LUCK SHOT GIANT PANDA JOINTLY STOP THEODORE ROOSEVELT. A panda, also called wah, is a large dimwitted Asiatic raccoon. The "jointly" in the Roosevelt cablegram referred to the fact that...
Crowds swarmed through massive wrought iron gates eager to see what Primo de Rivera's new Spain had to offer the world; what exhibits had been prepared by Portugal, by the U. S. and nine other American republics whose relations with Spain the Ibero-American Exposition was meant to improve...
...Athletic Association expects very much from the committee it has appointed to sound out undergraduate opinion on the proposed award to all minor sport teams of a minor "H" without modifications. The H, A. A. knows that attempts to find undergraduate opinion at Harvard are generally fruitless, however well-meant they may be. It seems, therefore, that the appointment of the committee is only a device to gain time for more consideration of the proposal. The significance of the incident lies in this very move which indicates that the Association has accepted a suggestion as worthy of serious attention...
...Chairman of the Princeton Speaker's Union, who had charge of the arrangements for this year (not Harvard), informed us that he had written Yale and that they were "not interested" in holding the debate, presumably because it was not included on the League schedule and would have meant extra preparation and expense. Moreover he said that the debate could not be held at Princeton before vacation because of conflicting engagements and that hence "it would be better to omit the meeting this year...