Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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China's foremost scholar, Dr. Hu Shih, has observed that his country's Red regime allows neither freedom of expression nor freedom of silence. What he meant was plain last week at a "self-accusation" meeting of students and teachers of Peking's famed Yenching University (TIME, Feb. 26). Professor after professor and pupil after pupil stood up to confess the blackest sin in Communism's book: pro-Americanism. Among the breast-beaters...
...about Europe making prints that were ordinary enough to be used for tourist ads. The abstract mosaics of Spain's Alhambra changed his bent. Fascinated by the mosaics' flat, tight geometry, he set himself the task of making equally tight, equally geometrical and yet representational pictures. That meant fitting recognizable shapes together as neatly as tiles and alternating them to create flat patterns. Compared to some of the problems he has since set himself, it was easy...
...report on advising made by Dean Bender's committee in the fall was meant to provide some personal instruction for the non-honors men in the large fields who could not get individual tutorial. The report recommended that all concentrators be eligible for group tutorial, and that individual tutorial be limited to seniors at the very top of their class...
...Unconditional surrender in the last war meant nothing," he said, "if we now neglect the ideals for which we were fighting. America is throwing away her opportunities. To insure peace, we must strengthen the U.N. since we are no longer in the pre-atomic age for which it was designed...
...best, though was yet to come. With three-quarters of the season gone, Coach Cooney Weiland abruptly shifted White to defense, which meant learning a totally new position. But White played so well in those last eight games five of them Pentagonal League contests--that he was named first-string defenseman on the all-League team, and, quite appropriately, the circuit's most improved player. In addition, he won a second-string position on the all-New England sextet...