Word: meant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more of it. The blockade had shut down much of Berlin's industry, thrown 125,000 out of work. There had been only four hours of electricity a day; Berliners had lighted their homes with candles or gone to bed at sunset. The siege's end meant not only more food, more jobs and more light, but a relatively comfortable winter ahead...
...keep all in room & board, Dickens lived in a frenzy of ceaseless labor, which was intensified by his sharing in the multifarious experiences and sensations of all the characters in all his novels. Extracts from letters, written while he was busy with The Old Curiosity Shop, illustrate what he meant when he said, "Men have been chained to hideous walls . . . but few have known such suffering and bitterness ... as those who have been bound to Pens...
...were not appeased. Cried New Hampshire's angry Styles Bridges: "Everyone on the Republican side this morning was either sick to his stomach or mad as hell. It is impossible for me to understand how any Republican Senator would resign his position of responsibility and trust when it meant turning the post over to a Democrat.* It doesn't smell good to me." But to the Democrats, and especially to Chester Bowles, it smelled fine...
...Stoke wasted no time. As some students sized him up, he was a friendly, mild-mannered political scientist, still youthful and brisk at 44, whose idea of a good time was to sit down in his study with a copy of Bertrand Russell. But L.S.U. found new President Stoke meant business about keeping politics off the campus at Baton Rouge. He wanted Louisianans to understand that the university was for education and not "an instrumentality of government." Nor was the university a playground. "Give a student a convertible and a textbook," he said, "and you cannot expect them to compete...
During Schlesinger's speech, the History professor questioned the meaning of the term "Free Enterprise." He said it either meant freedom from government intervention or freedom from mon- opolies and cartelization. If the former is reliant, "the Free Enterprise members must face political chaos because the people will not stand for 'apple selling again...