Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wine & Strong Waters. In early practice, "consent of the governed" meant the domination of a conforming majority. "The brotherly watch of fellow members" soon degenerated into a terrifying apparatus of secret accusations and public confessions, where people's neighbors passed judgment on their real or fancied sins...
...Harvard, the Graduate School of Design has risen to No. 1 rank among U.S. architectural schools, in part at least because of Walter Gropius (TIME, Jan. 21). He was renowned as the founder of Germany's famed Bauhaus school, and youngsters for whom the words Gropius and Bauhaus meant crisp, challenging modernism followed him to Harvard. There, amid the pink & white Georgian of the Yard, he and his collaborators built a modern brick and glass graduate center. But for the most part, Gropius built little, was content to be a teacher, one of the three division chiefs...
...effect last week, the big question was: How tightly will it control the economy? The Defense Production Act Amendments of 1952 were patched together in such last-minute haste and compromise and with such pressure from lobbies that not even their authors knew exactly what many of the clauses meant. The important provisions...
Reporter Stern slapped a libel suit on L'Unità, and last week he won it. Two L'Unità writers and the paper's assistant director sheepishly told a Rome tribunal that they meant "no reflection on Mr. Stern's professional honor." The court ordered the paper to pay 500,000 lire ($800) in damages, plus 350,000 lire ($560) in costs and fines...
Unlike most fast new jets, the Starfire (over 600 m.p.h.) has straight instead of swept-back wings. Sweepback is meant to minimize the dangerous effects of shock waves at high speed. The same result can be accomplished by making the wings much thinner-a difficult job because thin wings tend to be weak and flexible. Lockheed gets around the obstacle by chewing large parts of the wing-skin, stiffeners, etc.-out of heavy slabs of aluminum...