Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vote for Less? Everywhere, the farmers' reasons for voting yes were basically the same: a yes vote meant a support price of $2.20 a bushel with quotas; a no vote meant $1.20 without them. In Washington, Ind., where Daviess County farmers marked ballots in the stone courthouse, windburned Norman Lawyer (who has 136 acres of wheat) asked a basic question: "Why should any farmer vote to cut the wheat price support in half?" Said Tom Graham, who plants 600 acres of wheat on his 3,000-acre farm north of Washington: "If wheat price supports fell...
...years in bed, beset by rickets, heart trouble and finally typhoid fever (which nearly killed him). Then the family moved ten miles from smoggy Hoboken to the green hills of South Orange, and Alfred's health improved. He speaks with almost ferocious intensity of what South Orange meant to him: 'Twas raised in city streets. It was amazing to me that there were flowers to be had for the picking, and that there were birds more brilliantly colored than house sparrows...
...Founders John and Anne Holden, both 42, all this was not meant to be just an easy way of getting themselves a campus. Both former teachers at Vermont's Putney School, they had long since come to the conclusion that a little creative manual labor is just what modern education needs. This year, after months of planning, they pooled their slim savings, bundled their two children and furniture onto a truck, set out to transplant the Putney idea in the West. The place they picked was a log ranch house with a couple of chicken coops, located in Roaring...
...work of Donald DeLue, an affable, 54-year-old expert in architectural sculpture (among his other works: the Harvey S. Firestone Memorial in Akron), the statue's well-meant but uninspired aping of classic works will irritate those who prize imagination as well as those who demand safe realism. DeLue's explanation: "I designed the figure as a spirit rising over the pain and toil of battle. This figure represents the triumph of the spirit over death...
...aware that in the same 18 years the ceiling has been lowered only once (at World War II's end), thought that Humphrey's dilemma would make for quicker, bigger cuts in spending. But they also knew, as did Secretary Humphrey, that the ceiling, as a symbol, meant little, that the important thing was the long-range determination of the Administration to reduce the debt itself...