Word: meant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...home front also Miss Ryerson is usually the first to learn of coming events-generally by telephone from expectant mothers who want to know "what the doctor meant" when he said so-and-so. She is also invaluable in cases of emergency when some of us are unable to reach the family physician immediately. During the war she became accustomed to all sorts of emergencies, including this one: someone telephoned from his office and asked to see her at once on an important matter. When he arrived, he asked to be shown how to make a hospital bed. It seemed...
...Moscow Conference Soviet policy had switched. Now the U.S.S.R. said she would take her reparations in German goods, which meant lifting the ceiling on German productive capacity. She would, in fact, let Germany turn out ten to twelve million tons of steel a year. Dulles recalled: "A little over a year ago, Marshal Sokolovsky said, 'To leave Germany an annual capacity of nine million tons of steel will mean war within a few years...
...little voices throughout Europe icily reported last week what the failure of the Moscow Conference meant to them...
...performances range from good through ragged to corny. Carnegie Hall's makers evidently tried hard not to mangle, and they recorded considerable stretches of the music, rather than cinema's customary flibbertigibbet tatters. Even so, two hours of this kind of frenzied anthologizing, however well meant, are exhausting. It is often said in defense of such musical popularization that it serves to interest many people in good music who might never otherwise learn to care for it. It might also be suggested that the effort could frighten many potential music lovers away...
Before the war, Dudley had a semblance of a library, but it was removed to Widener during the lean years when the number of commutes, along with total enrollment, was at a low ebb. Failure to rebuild this collection has meant that Dudley's patrons receive less benefit than any other group from the University's matches library facilities. The inequality may be removed when the Lamont undergraduate library is completed at some unknown future date. Meanwhile, provision should be made so that commuters--numbering considerably more than the membership of the average House--do not continue to be poor...