Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noted the desirability of having a college artificial ice surface. In 1922, Alfred Winsor spoke of the disadvantage of Harvard hockey in the face of its two principal rivals, Yale and Princeton, who virtually had rinks of their own. The Area was opened in 1910, but it has always meant an awkward trip and a very crowded schedule. Now oven prop schools like Andover, Taft, and 8t. Doms have rinks, with 8t. George's and Choate hoping to open their soon...
...original index, still at Princeton, was begun back in 1917, when Charles Rufus Morey, assistant professor of art and archaeology, started searching for a way to make a permanent record of Christian art. This seemed a hopelessly ambitious scheme, for it meant listing every published example of early Christian art, describing it, compiling opinions on its date and meaning, and finally cataloguing it with a photograph. Scholars felt the need for such an index, but, says Professor Morey, "only we were fools enough to get on with...
...site he chose for his new place was just a block and a half from the old one, but it was south of Wilshire, which meant eating on the wrong side of the boulevard. That disturbed Mike not at all. To raise money he simply assured prospective stockholders that "the south is so much warmer." The new Romanoff's has no back room, but its cheery main dining room is so shaped that everybody can stare at everybody else without much strain. Business, so far, has been double what it was north of the boulevard, even though capacity...
London club called "Churchill's" (no kin), and a fan letter addressed to her was mistakenly delivered to the old statesman. Churchill forwarded it with a note of his own: "My dear Miss Kitt, I presume that this extraordinary document was meant...
...Embarrassedly discovered that, through a parliamentary error the week before, it had repealed the rule requiring a one-year wait before the remarriage of a divorced person. Actually, the Assembly had meant to strengthen the rule by requiring pastors to assure themselves of the person's "penitence for past sin and failure" (TIME, June 2), forgot to write the one-year rule into the revised provision. The Assembly will have to wait till next year to redress its mistake...