Word: meant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also includes a number and a name with each course, but in many cases the name says no more about the course than does the number. "Conduct of Language" is the title of a Social Relations course to be given this spring, and it is a title that has meant everything and nothing to all who have pondered its significance. In this course, and in countless others like it spread throughout the Social Relations, Government, History, and Economics departments, a brief descriptive paragraph would make program planning much less of a haphazardous adventure that it is nowadays...
...Nane, they say, ha'e I," lamented Robert Burns's lonely lassie. But, if statistics meant anything, every lassie could have her laddie this happy leap year. "Scotland," announced Registrar General J. G. Kyd last week, "is now the only European country where a maldistribution of sexes at marriageable age places women in a favorable position for finding husbands." The romantic ratio: 162,000 nubile Scotswomen, between the ages of 25 and 29, to match 176,000 unmarried men in the same age group...
...what my experience on the CRIMSON has meant to me. Being a writer and occasional public to me. Being a writer and occasional public speaker, I look upon my course with Bliss Perry and my apprenticeship on the CRIMSON as the source from which I first acquired the tools of my trade...
...take pictures of random stars; and the astronomers, though they kept their mouths shut, seemed more starry-eyed than usual after the big telescope's initial performance. The man to whom the moment meant most may have been Astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble, whose specialty is space. Years ago, using the 100-in. telescope on Mt. Wilson, he had explored the known frontiers of the universe. He found a baffling mystery: the distant nebulae (clouds containing billions of stars) seemed to be rushing away from the earth at enormous speed, as if the whole universe were convulsed by one vast...
Even the journalism schools could not agree. Missouri's Dean Frank Luther Mott sided with the A.N.P.A.; Ralph L. Crosman of the University of Colorado leaned towards the Guild. As for working newsmen, few were likely to yearn for professional status if it meant no overtime...