Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coaches announced that there had been no definite selections of teams as yet, and that the distinction between the first and second elevens of a class squad meant nothing. The present policy of giving the players plenty of work will be continued, and it is expected that teams will be definitely made up within a short time...
...year to be elected Secretary of the Union. And his speeches are not all of a political nature. In non-political debates he is equally happy. Suddenly he will arise, to struggle manfully with a quotation from St. Thomas Aquinas, or to explain to a bewildered house what is meant by the theory of relativity. All these things Mr. Hutchinson has at his fingers' tips, so at least it seems. Little wonder then that he has been elected President of the Milton Society, the debating society of Christ's and Secretary (subsequently Vice-President) of the Union...
...sseldorf last week for the 89th congress of the Society of German Natural Philosophers and Physicians.* Whether they came in lace-ornamented first class coaches or in clattering fourth class vans, whether with leather portmanteaux or wicker lunch cases, whether smartly frocked or draggedly trousered-the ten thousand meant this congress to be the renaissance of a German culture, without the patina of which, in the years before the War, no student anywhere felt himself raised above shambling mediocrity...
...been called a comedy of American low life by which is meant that the characters are not Anglo-Saxon, do not speak copper plate English, nor live in trim little apartments furnished with a show of opulence. The scenery is therefore different, a bit less polished, and a relief from drawing rooms. Then again, the play is unusually terse. At moments, the characters are voluble enough,--when they deviate into politics or prohibition,--but at the moments that mark the dramatic progress of the piece, they have just those few words for which the situation calls. The rest...
...make the graduate student a part of things in general a functioning entity in the social life of the university. And here it may be stated that "social" is used in a sense very remote from any connotation which implies Rotary Club affairs of Elks Balls By "social" is meant merely that appreciation of common existence in a common interest. Harvard needs no "hello fellows...