Word: meant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...obvious that if these clinics were to be effective they would need the broadest participation possible. That meant that while NSA could sponsor the clinics and see that they got organized, once the clinics started, they would have to include non-NSA schools and would have to be independent of the sponsoring organization...
Tacho's fat-pig policy was paying off. For diehard Nicaraguan exiles, the legion's end meant that nothing short of a thunderbolt could now topple Tacho. Homesick and penniless, they had begun drifting back to make their peace with the porky dictator. He was glad to see them: "I want all Nicaraguans home. I like to have 'em close, so I can keep an eye on them, bless...
...mentioned his ballet The Legend of Joseph, which Impresario Sergei Diaghilev had first produced in Paris and London in 1914. Joseph meant something special to Max Reiter: as a young man he had played the celesta in the Berlin Opera orchestra while Strauss himself conducted it. Reiter demanded the honor of being the first to perform the new version when it was ready...
South Africa announced that it would sell 100,000 ounces of 22-carat gold at $38.20 an ounce through the London brokers Mocatta & Goldsmid. (On the basis of 24-carat or "pure" gold, the Fund's yardstick, that meant a premium of about $6.50 over the $35 rate.) South Africa said the gold was not being sold for monetary purposes but for industrial and similar uses, and was thus beyond the Fund's jurisdiction. The Fund thought differently. Since the brokers kept mum on the gold's destination, the Fund suspected that it was going to hoarders...
...second time in a week, Hal Ulen's varsity swimmers couldn't tell victory from defeat until the last seconds. m Against Army a week ago, the 400-yard relay spelled disaster. Saturday night it meant thrilling victory over Princeton and second place in the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League...