Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington last week, that eminent scientist, Dr. Vannevar Bush, was called to the telephone by a reporter who wanted guidance on what the new Russian atomic-bomb explosion meant. "I'm listening to the World Series, as you should be," retorted the doctor hurriedly. He added, politely: "Giants ahead, six to nothing," and hung up. Once more the U.S. celebrated the seven days of the long lunch hour, the surreptitious telephone call, the quick office bet, and-to feverish New Yorkers-of the hunt for the ducat, the pasteboard, the seat at the game. BASEBALL FEVER, the sports pages...
...still a game little boys and students can play. He maintains that Yale, which led college football into the swamp has now found the proper perspective in amateurism. One would like to think Cohane is right. If every Old Blue, however, reads this tale of the days when Yale meant football, and weeps for Herman, then scares up some more talent for the Fat Man, Yale's amateurism might well become as mythical as Frank Merriwell...
...book crinkles with unpremeditated kindness, an uncomplicated acceptance of ordinary humanity. But, like Paterson, it is oddly erratic, even pointless at times, with commonplace anecdotes and trailing reminiscences. It is the kind of book a man might have written for himself and his friends, random recollections never meant for a critical eye. But "Doc" Williams has always written for himself. Of a critic who once doubted the worth of his poetry, he wrote: "To hell with him . . . Tell him to go wipe his nose...
...three or four times, a small man in a blue pin-stripe suit waddled up and introduced himself as Tommy Kelly. He repeated what the publicity man had said before and added that he did not know how we could get a hold of "the Governor." "The Governor was meant to come in here this afternoon, but I guess he went shopping instead," he added...
...University sharply slashed the appropriation for its own. Geography department, and eliminated Geography as a field of concentration. Although this did not directly affect the Institute, which was separate from the University, it meant that the Administration was no longer interested in building up the field of geography...