Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What Children Talk About. Dr. Mary Shattuck Fisher selected 72 youngsters between the ages of 2 and 6. For three days, from arrival at nursery school until afternoon nap, stenographers tagged after the children taking down everything they said. In the case of. one garrulous 4-year-old, that meant 1,728 remarks. The most bashful 2-year-old contented himself with 200. Last week, having pored long over the stenographic transcripts, Dr. Fisher finally knew what children talk about: Themselves...
Conductor Artur Rodzinski, who obtained the first U. S. rights to Lady Macbeth, heard it six times in Russia last summer. Last week he called it "one of the most important contributions to music brought out in the past 25 years." The ardor of his performance proved that he meant what he had said...
...subject. I wouldn't have written this if I hadn't just spoken with two internationally know medical research men who scoff at the whole idea. They said it was ridiculous to spend money curing something, the cause of which we don't know. . . . This is not meant in derogation of the idea, but it simply is another pathetic mistake of the uplifters...
...oppressively respectable. Not only do we intend to make the "News" good reading, but we believe it can be made exciting reading, we believe there are new things to be found and reported. And as a newspaper the "News" bids final farewell to the delusion that it is meant solely to reflect undergraduate opinion. Here our predecessor has blazed the trail for us by pointing out the dullness and the futility of trying to enunciate what is representative in the welter of student thought. We go further in maintaining that if our opinions are worth expressing, they must lead, they...
...knows better than shrewd Josef Stalin that the shrewd Russian peasant is a born ironist, famed for taking cracks at his masters by sly indirection. That one of the Dictator's pet collective farms should have staged an assassination of Red by Red, no matter under what pretext, meant just one thing in Russia. Last week Pravda, newsorgan of the Party, banned any further staged assassinations, denounced Saratov's rustic thespians, demanded their instant punishment...