Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...family way of life to a specialized indu try. Through the years new machines- tractors, trucks, combines, multiple plows, multi-row cultivators, a whole catalogue of farm equipment-made it possible for a man to farm more acres of land, to raise more and better livestock (see BUSINESS). That meant the need for fewer people on the farm. It meant (and continues to mean) fewer small, "family" farms, and bigger expertly-managed farms...
...word, what happened to us. Just a minute. It seems that out handicap meant we start fifteen minutes after the rest. Absurd. We're good, but not that good...
...Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan announced its end, and professed to find the whole thing unimportant. "They put out a paper," said Mikoyan, "I think." Tito congratulated Russia's new bosses on their "brave and bold" course, but just in case anyone really thought the end of the Cominform meant the beginning of a new era, Pravda pointed out that the Cominform dissolution "in no way means a weakening of links between Communist Parties"-and Pravda should know...
From the days when theatre at Harvard meant a handful of dedicated participants, there are now more interested people than can be comfortably accommodated. Harold R. Scott '57, who has been a leader in this revival of spirit, playing the dual roe of actor (John of Gaunt in the Eliot Drama Group's Richard II) and director (the HDC's Something Wild), estimated that there are "about 200 people from Harvard and Radcliffe who have performed in one show or another...
...pointed out that Menderes had plunged so heavily on new dams, plus roads, harbors and factories, that Turkey had nothing left over to make the economy run. Prices soared, people went hungry, factories came to a standstill. But dams and beet-sugar factories planted in Turkey's hinterlands meant votes among the farmers, who make up 80% of the electorate, and Menderes hated to give them up. Instead, he hoped for more money-$300 million of it-from the U.S., but did not get it. It took a rebellion in his own party last fall before Menderes agreed...