Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eleven o'clock rules last spring meant women, parties and drinking, those "Three Horsemen" of college social life, were in the Houses at night. But this grant of freedom was abused only by those people who would abuse it at the regular parietal hours. Eleven o'clock rules this fall will mean more women, more parties, and more drinking. The masters have only to decide whether the late rules will mean so much more that the social conduct of House members will turn suddenly irresponsible...
...bust of Augustus John, a shaggy, forceful bronze that seemed like a quick-frozen hunk of the old man. Said Time & Tide: "A searching interest in humanity . . ." Reported Fiore: "Augustus said I was a master. He may have been a little tipsy at the time, but I think he meant...
...reductions also meant the end of engine production by all secondary suppliers of all production models, except for Pratt & Whitney's J-57. But the hardest hit was General Electric, a primary producer of the J-47. It will cut its monthly production in half. Packard and Studebaker will stop making J-47s by December. Nash will wind up production of Pratt & Whitney's R-2800 piston engine by May, and Chevrolet will stop making Wright's piston R-3350. Buick will continue making the Wright jet Sapphire only until present shortages are made up; then...
...interest rates high, but there seemed to be no shortage of buyers if the price was right. And despite the flood of new private issues, Government bonds provided their own surprise: they rose to the highest point since spring. Since higher prices spelled lower yields and cheaper money, it meant that the tight-money market had actually loosened...
...tons of tin concentrates during the next year from Bolivia. The price: the New York market quotation at the time of delivery. For Bolivia, whose economy is almost totally dependent on tin production (tin exports give it more than 80% of its foreign exchange), the agreement meant a guaranteed market for a third of its output, and a chance to bolster its sagging economy...