Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...English in a junior college in one of the finest public school systems in the U.S. After three days, his shortcomings became evident to the rest of the force (he had "never heard of John Steinbeck," for instance); on the fifth day, when he pleasantly told me that he meant to "take a book home and read it some night because he hadn't read a book in five years," I fired him . . . The whole incident was only a temporary setback, however, because he is still in the school system and has recently been appointed...
Challenge Renewed. A less arrogant politician than Joe McCarthy would have accepted this as a warning to stay in line. To be sure, he protested against the "suggestion by our political enemies" that his criticism was meant as a challenge to the President's leadership. Then, as if to prove the "enemies" right, Joe McCarthy renewed the challenge: "I strongly urge every American who feels as I do about this blood trade with a mortal enemy [Red China] to write or wire the President...
...Institute of 1770 even had ranking within itself: the first seventy or eighty elected to it from each class were termed Dickeys, from the name of a secret society D.K.E. For those undergraduates with the correct background it was all-important that they be elected to the Dickey--it meant certain social success in College and afterward. And even in 1926 when the Pudding and the Institute merged, the club sent out a list of members, in the order which they had been elected. This ranking was published in Boston and New York papers and served as a convenient method...
...punching. Until 1947, the punching rules held only that no student could be elected before the fifth Monday of his third term in the College. Some clubs held elections at that time, a few held off until after the Yale game, and the rest elected in December. Since this meant that a sophomore had to decide on an early invitation before receiving possible others, revised rules changed all elections to the same night, the first Wednesday in December. To case the long term of punching, the clubs had a moratorium of about three weeks, from the end of October untily...
...mission board, who had formerly been moderator of the church, what of the Catholic scriptural claim about Christ's promise to build His church on the "rock" of Peter, with his accompanying command to rule the faithful?† Luther and the Protestant reformers held that by "rock" Christ meant not Peter but Himself, or the faith of His followers. Many modern Biblical scholars insist that the text itself is either spurious or garbled...