Word: meant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Mark Twain Meant. Since 1937, the Nine had taken themselves pretty well out of the headlines, but they had made news nonetheless. Closer to the tradition of Holmes and Brandeis than to that of Hughes, they had plowed under old and respected landmarks; they had overturned, altogether, some 30 previous decisions of the Supreme Court; they had struck out boldly, sometimes brashly, into new grounds. Other courts had split more violently, but no court had quarreled so continuously and rambunctiously with itself, Whereas in the '20s and '30s the courts found themselves in solid agreement some...
...indeed a terrible situation, but not quite in the way the officer meant it. In Washington, an Army officer, also anonymously quoted, confirmed the story: Frankfurt had proposed Clapp for a 90-day A.M.G. job, but Army Intelligence had notified Frankfurt he was "unemployable." Would the officer give details? "Further comment," he said importantly, "should come from Mr. Clapp...
...Change. Nobody was fooled-least of all the liberals who lean toward just a little harmless bit of "socialization" in medicine-into thinking that Fishbein's firing meant a change in fundamental A.M.A. attitude. The tipoff came three days later, when the delegates passed the buck on approval of the controversial prepaid medical plans run by laymen back to the local societies-in the past, the bitterest enemies of prepaid plans. The House, without committing itself, passed along a set of principles to "guide" the local societies in this old fight...
...lucky for the man in California that the History I exam was scheduled in the afternoon. This meant that he could take the exam on the West Coast at 10:15 a.m. Monday, while he would have had to take it at 5:15 a.m. if it had been scheduled in the morning here...
...might add that I have condensed this conversation a good deal. But even in its original form, it meant nothing to me. Snappy backs? Godin? Firing line? I made polite murmurs of agreement, just to draw my companion out, to see if he would mention one name or one phrase that I could comprehend. It was useless...