Word: meant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disgraceful response of the Faculty and graduate schools" has meant the failure of the WSSF drive, Samuel A. Robbins '46, Chairman of the food relief committee, charged last night, in revealing that the campaign had fallen almost $5000 short of its $20,000 goal...
...effect, then, the officers of Student Government simply ignored the evident legal aspects of their decision, which meant that they had conducted their vote under false pretenses. They sacrificed legality in a blunt way for expediency...
These words pointed clearly to Dr. Hu Shih, one of China's greatest educators, who is not a member of the Kuomintang and who has recently advocated uncompromising resistance to Communism. Chiang would probably stay on as head of the army and perhaps as Premier. But he clearly meant to guide the Chinese people away from their reliance on one-man leadership. Said he: "Whoever is President I will support with all my heart and all my strength. I will prove to the people that I am a loyal public servant...
...Atlanta, Margaret (Gone With the Wind) Mitchell and visiting lecturer Lady Astor were introduced to each other, and quickly showed U.N. how. "You will never know how much that book meant to us," said Lady Astor, speaking for England. "Lady Astor, I hope the British will send over here more people like you," said Novelist Mitchell, "with the power to speak to the heart...
From Manhattan, A. B. Magil of the Communist Daily Worker pressed the point deeper. He had applied for a passport to visit Palestine, and the State Department had turned him down (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Magil fired a cable to Geneva, asked the U.S. delegation if it really meant what it said...