Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There can't be much in this band-baton-over-the-goal-post business. The Harvard baton wiedler missed twice before the game, making it only on the third try, and the team did all right. But maybe it was meant to symbolize Harlow's two unsuccessful and third triumphant crack at the Tigers
These three constitute an integral part of the team's attack, and their presence in the lineup would probably have meant a larger margin of victory for the Tigers Saturday. But a vast improvement in both standard of play and mental attitude must be effected this week if Old Nassau hopes to stay in the fight with Harvard...
...this meant that brutally invaded China was rallying strongly last week, apparently united more closely than ever. Renewed confidence at Nanking brought enthusiastic Chinese press stories, to be accepted with reserve, which boasted that erstwhile Chinese Communist troops had recaptured in Shansi the Yenman Pass and the Pingshing Pass and "trapped 50,000 Japanese." Apparently the Chinese troops were staging effective guerrilla raids in territory which nominally has been "conquered" by Japan, and such harassing tactics may prove the best against an invader who last week had advanced so far that the various lines of military supply Japan must keep...
...been called Peiping for the past nine years by decree of Premier Chiang, is now administered by Chinese officials under orders of its Japanese conquerors. Last week amid local rejoicing the city resumed its name of Peking, meaning proudly "Northern Capital," whereas the insipid name of Peiping has meant "Northern Peace...
Premier Léon Blum, which is an actual Socialist party and polled most votes in the national election last year, has not repeated this triumph in the local balloting. This meant that the French "New Deal," introduced under M. Blum when he became Premier in 1936, has now lost the wide appeal it had at first. French voters seem predominantly satisfied by the way in which Premier Chautemps has sidetracked the New Deal at the point of radical progress it had reached when the Blum Cabinet fell (TIME, June 28 et seq.). This policy canny M. Chautemps calls...