Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard's most sensational fire broke out immediately after vacation that January when a three-alarm blaze completely destroyed the Soldiers Field Licker Building before a crowd of 4,500. The loss meant almost nothing to College athletes, however, since Clarence Dillon '05 had already offered the University a sum large enough to build a new and adequate building. Little attempt was made to determine the cause of the $125,000 fire after Dillon phoned the University the next day and urged that the new structure be started immediately...
This time there was no simple sentence that meant "guilty" or "innocent," no terse phrase that decreed a statute "unconstitutional" or "constitutional." Yet the 1,000 words that Chief Justice Earl Warren read off to the crowded Supreme Court chamber one day last week released a powerful tide of law that will change the social face of the South before it has rolled to its farthest reach. A year ago the court decreed Negro segregation unconstitutional in public schools of the U.S. Now, after long consideration of pleas by Negro and Southern white lawyers, of advisory briefs from the Department...
...that it was, remarked that the Belgian could only say that because the U.S. ambassador had just left. Goateed Premier Nikolai Bulganin undiplomatically proposed a toast to neutrality, only to have Tito announce bluntly that Yugoslavia was neither neutral nor neutralist, but fiercely independent. Bulganin said lamely he had meant Switzerland...
...Yellow Paper. Friendly, greying Dr. Palmquist went to Wilshire in 1947, and "only asked them to let me build the kind of church I would have liked to belong to when I was in the advertising business." This meant hiring "the country's foremost Bach organist" and a full-time drama coach (six plays a year), instituting a physical education program, a weekday nursery, a children's church, a Sunday school for handicapped children, a staff psychologist and a full-time "cateress." On the side, Pastor Palmquist served on 23 different Los Angeles committees during his eight years...
...must sometimes do the impossible. Last week's The Chocolate Soldier was Du Pont's 20th spectacular of the season. This time he had ten days, instead of the more usual five, to dress the entire company for the Oscar Straus operetta, starring Risë Stevens. That meant he had to create about 100 individual designs and fit about 600 costumes for the show. He also had to keep in mind that he was working for both color and black and white (if he uses the wrong shade, the heroine's face might turn green in certain...