Word: meant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...countries really overpopulated? It depends on what is meant. A handful of primitive savages, who live by hunting, can "overpopulate" an enormous area of fertile country. They eat up all the food available to them, though the land over which they roam could support, if turned to farming, many hundred thousand people...
...what it meant in costs, in men, in material to Canada, the government was hazy. But clearly the government was preparing the public for its role in North Atlantic defense. At week's end, Prime Minister-Designate Louis St. Laurent, long an apostle of North Atlantic security, said gravely: "Canada cannot possibly remain neutral in a third world war even if 11,999,999 out of 12,000,000 Canadians want to stay out ... A third world war would produce results that cannot be conceived. But we believe there is a way such a happening can be prevented...
Under J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Institute's third director (the first two: Flexner and Frank Aydelotte), sitting and thinking are still encouraged. But so are writing and talking; Robert Oppenheimer thinks that ideas were meant to be shared...
...declared that they "would continue to function along Progressive lines as long as it was necessary." Clarification of just what this general statement meant in terms of specific activity was not available from any higher authority in the organization last night...
...became clear that the Democrats had won 11 seats in the House away from the Republicans. They were leading in the fight for 12 more. They were leading in all 11 contested Senate fights. This meant that Dewey was not getting big enough majorities anywhere to pull other Republican candidates along with him in a major sweep. It meant that the 80th Congress was getting thumbs-down from the American people. At 1 a.m. Truman was still in front. At 2 a.m. his popular majority had grown while his electoral probability had dropped. Nobody knew just how it would...