Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Maius" is indeed the comparative. TIME gave the President's survey of the whole state of the union the title which Roger Bacon used for his "encyclopedia and organum of the 13th Century," and had TIME meant "great work" it would have said magnum opus, not opus magnus...
...Another defect is that our education has too often meant conformity to an accepted pattern rather than release of energy in construction...
...permanent change in Yale's Commencement Day date necessitated for the first time the playing of the first two games on successive days at New Haven and Cambridge. This meant that two good pitchers had to be developed to win the series in two games...
But?National Committeeman Creager issued from the White House last week very calm and newsless. "All this furor about what the President meant," he said, "is in the minds of the people generally. But those who know Mr. Coolidge know what he meant . . . that if he can have his way about it he will not be a candidate...
...Later that day I met old Sawyer, who was there every morning to feel the President's pulse and advise a new brand of pills. Sawyer laughed and said: 'God, they had a hell of a row this morning.' He meant the President and his wife...