Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Topic A is not meant to be a comprehensive survey of everything that is going on everywhere. Its purpose, instead, is to reflect the country's moods and enthusiasms, and to help discriminate between subjects of passing and continuing interest...
...cops, gingerly opened the parcel and took out Volume L-Z of a standard German encyclopedia. "Hmm," wondered a cop, "why would anyone send the Chancellor an encyclopedia?" A moment later, a blinding flash hurled him to the wall; two hours later, Reichert was dead from the bomb meant for Chancellor Adenauer...
Washington reported the first drop since June in the cost of living index: 0.6% from 189.1 to 187.9 (100 equals the 1935-39 average). The main causes: cheaper fruits, vegetables and eggs, clothing and house furnishings. The drop meant a pay cut of 1? an hour for 1,250,000 railwaymen and 40,000 aircraft workers whose wages are tied to the cost of living in union contracts (in this case using the old index, which fell 0.9% from...
Rooms in Dunster either overlook the beautiful Charles River--or they don't. If they don't one is apt to get a rather uninspiring view of the drab tenements which surround the House. All Dunster rooms were meant originally to be either doubles or singles--with crowded conditions many were converted into triples, but that is about as big as they...
...avoid a slide-rule approach. Rigorous application of the proportional representation theory would altogether deprive a House of what best might be called its social common denominator, which must be retained in some measure if Houses are to be fashioned into the social and academic centers they are meant...