Word: meant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Americans were beginning to understand what it meant to say: "I am an American." It meant more than owning the atom bomb, or having steak for dinner, or the inalienable right to yell "Kill the ump." It had begun to mean: "I am a citizen of a privileged and therefore obligated nation. I am no longer the prodigal son of Europe. I am my brother's keeper. But only free men can be my brothers...
...commonest phrases for the unity which men were trying for in 1948. The phrase was Ernie Bevin's. He had floated it out on the air in January, without ever quite defining it. A fortnight ago at a private gathering, somebody asked Bevin just what he had meant. He replied passionately and well for 25 minutes, leaving his hearers under the double impression that he 1) believed in it with all his heart, and 2) did not know what "it" was. But one thing was clear enough: some kinds of unification were more pressing (and feasible) than others. Perhaps...
...took the headship here . . . Listen, Stinker, quite seriously, Selhurst is having a beano for its 300th anniversary on June 19. Could you come down, old boy, and give us a sermon on the Sunday?" Returned the headmaster's secretary, on the distinguished man's behalf: "Obviously not meant...
Joint instruction has its roots deep in the past. Some one hundred and seventy years ago, a group of young ladies gathered in Cambridge to reap the educational benefits of Harvard. For more than a decade, this experiment meant nothing more formal than more or less random studying with the College faculty; but in 1784 the first diplomas were awarded to "Annex" students, and Radcliffe set up in business officially...
...hunger and strokes and other inhumanities, you must now not believe that this is blown up--it is the only truth. The men in the camps are no Nazis, they are democrats who fought against the Nazis and their despotism, and now if they saw that the Russians meant yet a much more despotism, while former officers and Nazis, who were in schools in Russia lend our country...