Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Truman's timing of the appointment, only a few hours before Congress was due to adjourn, meant that the Senate would not be able to discuss the appointment until it reconvenes in January...
...church (TIME, May 28). The setting and the resonant acoustics of Manhattan's St. James' Church are well suited to Playwright Fry's religious allegory; the actors (three of them from the original British cast) have mastered that rare trick of speaking poetry as though they meant it. But the play itself is another of those allegorical wastelands and wildernesses that the life of the times has imposed upon its literature...
...knot of a dozen people stood around the window of the nursery; inside, Nurse's Aid Marlene Lubs, 16, was wheeling over one bassinet after another and showing off the babies as their numbers were called by proud fathers or other relatives. Somebody asked for "415-1," which meant James Lawrence Lyons, because his mother was in room 415, bed No. 1. Marlene Lubs did not notice whether it was a man or a woman...
When the Government Printing Office gets a request for "the book," with 20?^ enclosed, its clerks know just what is meant. Out goes another copy of the Children's Bureau booklet, Infant Care. Last week, this Government super-seller (more than 28 million copies sold) went into a new edition, its ninth since 1914. The new edition reverses a lot of the advice in the first...
...mural is a mass of jumbled co and symbol. A story around the camels that no one knew what it meant Eleanor Roosevelt saw it once and marked with surprise that it was pi propaganda. But the college did not to it down, and many expect the gar work to become quite famous. "And that's to be the case," said an alumna "we want it at Dartmouth...