Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rickover's folly and his obstreperous methods, obstructed him for five long and crucial years, tried to break up his team and even to get him tossed out of the Navy. It remained for Arleigh Burke, Chief of Naval Operations since last August, to realize fully what Nautilus meant, to pick up where the engineers had left off and, as a professional Navy man, to turn the professional Navy once and for all toward the future...
DeGuglielmo called Vellucci's confiscation motion the "most asinine proposal probably ever brought before a legislative body." He charged that "last Friday's riot, which if carried to the full might have meant the loss of life, is directly attributable to irresponsible statements in the press made by certain Council members...
...Eratosthenes started with the traditional information that there was a deep well at Syene (Aswan) in southern Egypt to whose bottom the sun's rays penetrate only during the summer solstice (June 20-22). This meant that the sun was directly over Syene at that time. He also had a figure for the distance between Syene and Alexandria: 5,000 stadia. Only one observation was necessary. During a summer solstice, he measured the shadow cast by a vertical pillar in Alexandria. It turned out to be one-fiftieth of a full circle (about...
...soon as Norma Jeane could understand what was meant, she was forced by the woman of the house to promise that she would never drink or smoke or swear. At every childish annoyance, she was told that she was headed straight for hell; on every possible occasion, she was made to say her prayers, and on every Sunday morning, noon and night, and sometimes once or twice in the middle of the week, the little girl was marched away to church. At home she had to scrub the floors before she was five years old, and do the family dishes...
Henceforth, said the board, there will be no kindergartens, no more junior-high or high-school basketball, football, debating, dramatics or choral singing. Janitor services will be reduced, and the high-school day will be cut. Whether meant as a shocker or not, the announcement brought a chorus of protests. Cried one angry father: "They've decided to get us where it hurts most, by making our kids suffer." But other citizens found reason to examine their consciences. Twice they had had the opportunity to pass an amendment that would give more than $1,000,000 to the schools...