Word: meant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boom" had other educators worried last week, but for a different reason: they were afraid it meant bankruptcy for their colleges. In School and Society, Colgate's P.R.O., W. Emerson Reck, reported the odd plight of U.S. colleges which are going into the red because they have too many customers...
...Party Ba Gu is Party jargon. It combines hackneyed language with unfamiliar terminology. ... In our drive to build the Party to 100,000 let's be on guard against Ba Gu. . . . When Communists are accused of being dogmatic by sincere persons what is often meant is that our correct thought is so wrapped up in the language of Ba Gu that we are simply not understood. Ba Gu is harmful to the individual, harmful to our cause and must therefore be exterminated...
...Gene Holman moved into the presidency, now gets $100,000 a year. He took his promotion calmly. On the day he was made president, Mrs. Holman got the news from the excited wife of another Standard official. When Mrs. Holman called Gene, he drawled: "Oh, yes, I meant to tell you about it when I got home...
Writer-Director Lewin reportedly contents himself with the assurance that those who are smart enough can still see, in spite of such subterfuges, everything that Maupassant really meant. Those who are smart enough for keyhole-peeping, and no smarter, will doubtless enjoy...
...absence of philosophical thinking in a book by a professional philosopher might seem a damning defect. In Philosopher's Quest, as in its predecessor (the best-selling Philosopher's Holiday), it is meant to be a source of charm. Professor Edman's gift for talking about philosophy has made him one of the prides of Columbia's faculty and a crowd-drawing lecturer. The same gift, at work in his good-humored essays, will endear him to readers who do not wish to put up their hands and ask searching questions...