Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your smug claim to omniscience is so damn nauseating. Eisenhower-Nixon's re-election meant that "a new political generation had come of age with promising concepts of how Government ought to be run." I'm happy to be associated with those apostles of error in Government affairs: Adlai Stevenson, John Kennedy, George Kennan and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt...
...part of an eight-plane (four from Loring and four from Castle) training mission known as Operation Quick Kick. When crew members landed at Friendship their main impression of their speed-for-distance endurance flight was that their bottoms were terribly numb. To the U.S. and the world it meant far more than that: it was a timely reminder that the B-52 can reach (with hydrogen-bomb payloads) and return from the Soviet Union at jet speed if the need should arise...
...these were symbols. They were symbols of Virginia's natural blessings, of its graceful way of life, of its prospering agriculture and burgeoning industry, of its leadership role that has meant so much to the U.S.-and of the way that Virginia, which has more reason than other Southern states to trust in the future, is exercising its Southern leadership to move into the black, prejudice-ridden past...
...resources of Widener Library are scarcely more helpful. There is about half a drawer of cards on "Bohemian" and most of the books are published in exotic Slavic languages. The inestimable William Dean Howells boldly commented: "To explain what Bohemian meant, or what Bohemia was... no one can quite do." And the New York Times cautioned its readers in 1858 that Bohemians are "seductive in their ways, and they hold the finest sentiments. The Bohemian cannot be called a useful member of society." Throughout history, people have seemed reluctant to explain the phenomenon of the Bohemian...
...brief moment of enlightenment the Council did pass a resolution encouraging discussion by House candidates of Harvard problems. The candidates who are meant to represent their classes are, however, still out in the cold. If the Student Council will not provide some forum in which they can air their views on issues from Men Hall to Al Hofeld, the candidates themselves should take the inactive and advertise their platforms of action to their classmates. Only by taking such action can they make the Student Council the voice of the College that it pretends...