Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forgotten in the enthusiasm was the fact that Einstein, though sympathetic to Israel, had never been an ardent Zionist; he believed in a bi-nationalism that meant "friendly and fruitful coexistence with the Arabs." He does not even know Hebrew, official language of the new state...
...papers. The time it took Bonn to catch Roesler is amazing since in 1949 he was fired from his position as a grammar school teacher when all his students began writing essays explaining that Germany lost the war only because traitors gave away secret weapons that soon would have meant an overwhelming victory for Hitler...
Mastery of the H-bomb meant that the U.S., in its search for ever more powerful weapons, had caught something of the secret of the sun's own power. It was the kind of event to date the beginning of a new era. But the men who watched the test-including a sailor who drew a diagram of the explosion in his letter (see NEWS IN PICTURES)-caught the meaning better than any of the headlines. They simply called the explosion "Lulu...
...Millay had literally earned the right to lecture her publisher. By putting into her poetry the heart she perpetually wore on her sleeve, she had become that rarest of things in U.S. literature: a best-selling poet. To most young moderns of the '20s and '30s, poetry meant simply Edna St. Vincent Millay. To jazz agers and Bohemians she became a symbol for living recklessly, hand-to-mouth and bed-to-bed. Critics who then spoke of her in the same breath with Shakespeare might like to take back a lot of what they said. But even...
...what evidently was meant to answer Conant's statements, the Bishops declared that "education which is truly religious is a unifying rather than a dividing force...