Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week, on the first birthday of the present Parliament, the Tories forced another vote in the House of Commons. This time they won, but it was a hollow victory. The previous votes were on major confidence motions-coal, steel, meat, defense, groundnuts-on which a government defeat would have meant a general election. The sixth vote was on a minor issue: a Tory bill to extend from 25 to 60 miles the range within which private truckers might compete with nationalized transport. The Laborites made no great effort to get out their votes, lost...
...rise last week was also a game-must-go-on-at-all-costs school, made up of coaches, some basketball writers and college students. By "the game," they meant the Madison Square Garden variety. Said Coach Nat Holman of C.C.N.Y.: "We must keep going.* The game has meant too much to the youth of the college, the nation, even the world, to be affected ,by half a dozen kids who have a price...
When the Pennsylvania Railroad threw its sickly stepchild, the Long Island, into bankruptcy two years ago, it expected the reorganization to run a normal course. That meant that the Long Island's $78.6 million debt would be scaled down its fares raised, and the Pennsy would step back into control. But nothing normal ever^happens on the Long Island...
...sabre is the roughest of the fencing weapons. Touches are allowed not only with the point, but also with the cutting edge of the weapon anywhere above the waist; five touches win. The sabre has meant the difference so far and will again at Yale...
...meant to replace the iron lung because it is mainly effective against only one type of polio--bulbar polio. This variety of the disease attacks the bulb at the base of the skull where the nerve center is located. The EPR takes over for the disturbed nerve center and substitutes its own steady breathing impulses for the weak, irregular ones from the brain...