Word: meant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soccer as in other sports a certain amount of luck is involved. James MacDonald's team has been lucky this year, but sound play has meant more. Sound play in the MacDonald image is not what generally passes as the American type of soccer. A Scot who has coached and played professional soccer since before the First World War, MacDonald has trained his team in the methods of the continental teams...
...beginning of the season the Crimson did not do so well, but nine weeks have meant improvement. Now the forward line works together with Phil Potter, Carlos Blanco, Kenny Chun, and Manny Aguirre as the keys in the center and Bill Dawson, Johnny Spivak, and Roy Heisler on the outside...
Twenty-five grams of vital streptomycin rushed to a Prague hospital by the Student Council meant the difference between life and death to William S. Ellis '44 as he lay critically ill in the midst of a medicine shortage...
...First Mrs. Fraser (by St. John Ervine; produced by Gant Gaither), which tackles the problems of British divorce in the '20s, probably wasn't meant to hold up after 17 years. In any case, it hasn't. A drawing-room piece about a middle-aged woman (Jane. Cowl) who lets her husband (Henry Daniell) marry a self-seeking young girl and then gets him back again, it follows a familiar pattern, makes use of familiar patter. It has no glaring faults; it is just so tame and predictable as to be generally dull...
...Jersey shore. Her pilothouse windows were hung with heavy grey curtains, more opaque than any fog. This low visibility did not bother the captain. By glancing at the radar's 12-in. "scope," he could follow all harbor doings for a mile around. A squarish blob meant a ferryboat; a small oval, a tug. Moored ships showed their anchor chains. Snaking her heavy barges through all these obstacles, the Transfer 21 made Jersey without trouble, though only the radar's electronic eye had seen the water...