Word: meant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Percenter. In Mandan, N. Dak., the court dropped a charge of impersonating a federal officer when the defendant explained that, to him, FBI after his name meant full-blooded Indian...
...Saturday. The winner of Thursday's Harvard-Yale tussle was scheduled to meet Princeton Saturday. However, the Thursday game resulted in a 3-3 deadlock, making it necessary for both the Crimson and the Elis to play Princeton. A Harvard victory over the Tigers would have meant a tie with Yale for the Big Three crown; a Tiger win leaves the title to Yale. The decisive score was unavailable at 2 a.m. today...
...cantonal elections, Communists got 184 seats; this time, anti-Red coalitions held Communist victories to 37. The Gaullists got 29% of the popular vote, and the government coalition of Socialists, Radicals and Popular Republicans did even better, with 35%. Failure of the Communist appeal to the Socialist rank & file meant that the Gaullist attitude toward Communism had pervaded the government parties. The political center of gravity in France had shifted to the right center. Continued progress toward economic recovery would keep it there...
...hastened home from Paris in 1921 and joined forces with two other revolutionaries who were to make Mexican art history: Siqueiros and José Clemente Orozco. Together they formed a government-backed syndicate of artists, published a manifesto announcing their intention "to socialize artistic expression." To the syndicate that meant ditching easel painting and going to work on walls-wherever they could find a big, challenging bare...
Dressing-Room Drill. On his birthday they were just rehearsing for Toscanini's opera broadcast of the season-the riproaring, tearfully tender music of Verdi's Aida. The music meant something special to the maestro. He had conducted it in his Rio de Janeiro debut almost 63 years ago as a beardless bambino, and in his U.S. debut at Manhattan...