Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rebuild his country, increase his crops, strengthen his army, educate his people, improve his health and save him from Communism. Instead of being met with open arms, they found themselves treated with indifference, hostility and suspicion. Baffled, saddened, the experts went home, vaguely aware that to the Indonesians independence meant something quite different from the Western notions, and that the Indonesians are an Asian people whose view of life is essentially elusive, esthetic, negative and passive...
...Curious Tolerance." Britain between the wars was a bad climate for a poet like Noyes. Increasingly hailed by the older generation, he was an archenemy of the younger. In Noyes's eyes, for example the so-called "stream of subconscious ideas meant only "the entire contents of the garbage can and the sewer." He prided himself that his objections to James Joyce's Ulysses ("filth") prevented its being praised on the BBC, and he ordered Novelist Hugh Walpole out of his house for recommending it to one of Noyes's daughters. To a more modern generation...
...their conversation the students are more mature than they might appear from a distance in their shirt-tails and bluejeans. "We get excited about learning," said one, and meant it. The intellectual counts foremost at Lawrence and the students support Pusey completely on his vehemently amateur-athletic policy. Lawrence belongs to the Mid West Conference, which includes schools such as Carleton, Rippon, and Grinnell. Pusey, while President of the Mid West President's Conference, balked at the growing professionalism at Beloit College, one of the members. Finally Beloit's basketball team played in Madison Square Garden, and that...
...their conversation the students are more mature than they might appear from a distance in their shirt-tails and bluejeans. "We get excited about learning," said one, and meant it. The intellectual counts foremost at Lawrence and the students support Pusey completely on his vehemently amateur-athletic policy. Lawrence belongs to the Mid West Conference, which includes schools such as Carleton, Rippon, and Grinnell. Pusey, while President of the Mid West President's Conference, balked at the growing professionalism at Beloit College, one of the members. Finally Beloit's basketball team played in Madison Square Garden, and that...
...prices. This is the way it was done: the money was revalued at the rate of five old crowns for one new; henceforth, a worker who had received 5,000 crowns monthly would get only 1,000, a cut of 80%. Prices were also cut, but only 31%; this meant that real wages dropped almost...