Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in the days when a summons to 4 University Hall usually meant disciplinary action, Harvard College developed a tradition for great and powerful Deans. Perhaps the greatest and most powerful-and the kindest-was the now legendary Dean Briggs. It was in his tradition that Chester N. Greenough ruled. And it was in Greenough's footsteps that a quiet, pipe smoking assistant professor of Government hesitatingly assumed the Deanship...
...Curtice meant it. He worked nights, poked through the plant getting to know production and engineering, volunteered to do some selling. He soon caught the eye of John Lee Pratt, then a member of G.M.'s presidential staff and a director since 1923. Says Pratt, now 75: "Some of these accountant fellows just sit and look at pieces of paper. That young redheaded fellow started going down in the plant and found out what determined his costs. He had to learn the technical side of the business, and he went out and learned it." Within a year after...
Except for a few (e.g. The Monongahela, Everglades), the books have seldom risen above the level of scrappy regional history. When New Mexican Novelist Paul Horgan began to do his book on the Rio Grande, it was meant to be one of the series. But in the end, the publishers decided not to include his book, for it towers above the others as a Prescott towers above cracker-barrel chroniclers. Great River is not only a fine job of historical research. It fuses the imagination of a good novelist (The Fault of Angels) with a remarkable sense of a region...
That was the start. The Republicans immediately accused Ribicoff and Bailey of "injecting racial and religious issues into the campaign." Bailey replied that Connecticut voters have received anonymous letters meant "to poison their minds" against Ribicoff, and he asked the Republican state chairman to "discourage" the practice. Meanwhile, a former Democratic Congressman announced that he would support Lodge because of the Democratic campaign tactics, and a letter appeared in the Hartford Courant stating: "In the closing days of the political campaign, Mr. Ribicoff has done what many of his fellow Jews hoped and prayed would not happen...
...victor tomorrow. In a last minute attempt to win the margin his party needs, Vice President Nixon has been beating the campaign drum with a volley of irresponsible charges, shuttling about the country crying that the Democrats are "soft on communism." The pundits who thought the purge of McCarthy meant a return to sanity now see the Senator returning in the robes of the Vice-President...