Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...robbed the people of their freedom, Czechoslovakia's Communists last week got on with the job of robbing them of their money. The operation was neatly done-in three stages. First, Radio Prague boomed: "All state loans after 1945 and securities issued after 1945 are declared worthless." This meant that workers forced to put their savings into the Czech version of "E" bonds now hold worthless paper, a total of about...
...summer symphony season in Manhattan has long meant six weeks or so of outdoor concerts in Lewisohn Stadium (capacity: 20,000), and the stadium concerts have long meant deficits (up to $100,000). Last week stadium organizers were in hot pursuit of a promising idea for ending these deficits: commercial sponsors...
...violating could be used to send any newsman to jail at the whim of the Reds. Says the Czech law and penal code: "He who attempts to obtain state secrets with the intention of betraying them to a foreign power [is guilty of espionage] . . . By a state secret is meant a fact [of] political, military or economic interest [which] should remain concealed . . . By economic secret is meant everything . . . important for economic enterprise . . . that should be kept secret." In short, Oatis was guilty of espionage if he tried to check the location or output of a factory with the "intention...
Thirdly, if there was disagreement between Hall and Yale it centered about the former's enthusiastic efforts to keep the Bowl filled (and the athletic budget balanced). It is true that this meant scheduling "name" teams, as the CRIMSON pointed out. It also meant selling tickets at reduced prices to a variety of local civic groups ranging from Rotarians to Camp Fire Girls; this sometimes led to a situation where Old Blues were sitting in the end-zone and Four-H Clubbers on the 50 yard line, and Old Blues obviously shook their heads at this...
...plane and, while the DC-3 takes off again, it is placed in a luggage cart. At 11:20 the bomb bursts. It kills three airport employees and wrecks the control tower. At the same moment, the direct plane to La Paz for which the package was meant is high over the Gulf of California, safe...