Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long time now I have meant to tell you about TIME'S only woman Senior Editor, Content Peckham. Our most recent inquiry about her is from Reader Charles D. Jones, placer miner, of Nome, Alaska, who wrote, in part...
...must be stamped out," the Commu nist Central Committee announced this month. The Titoists think their attitude toward "mysticism" has been shrewdly re strained. "Our policy toward the church has been proved right," boasted Milovan Djilas, Minister Without Portfolio. "We have not made a martyr of her." What Djilas meant was that a paper right of worship has been left in Yugoslavia, and that this serves to camouflage persecution of the church...
Within a few weeks he had things worked out surprisingly well. None of his squad was particularly fast--this meant Shepard's favorite fast-break brand of ball wouldn't work. But John Rockwell and Ed Smith were tail and good workers under the basket; be decided to concentrate his attack around the two lanky forwards. He built a double-pivot game around them, and it promptly paid off. Rockwell's work put him among the nation's top scorers by the middle of the fall...
...State Department from 1944 to 1947, calm, courtly William Lockhart Clayton preached the gospel of freer world trade and the responsibility of U.S. businessmen to finance industrial development abroad. Last week, as boss of Anderson, Clayton & Co., world-trading cotton brokers, Will Clayton showed just what he meant. In Mexico, alongside the highway from Saltillo to Monterrey, rimmed by 12,000-ft. peaks of the Sierra Madre, he opened a new $3,000,000 food-processing plant. Square, squat and red brick, it looked much the same as any other plant from the outside. But inside, 5,000 opening...
Harvard College meant to take no chances. As a postwar requirement, every freshman living in Harvard Yard's hallowed but inflammable old halls had to know how to make a quick exit by rope. Last week the dean's office declared there had been too much backsliding in rope sliding, ordered all proctors to see that their charges had clambered down a twelve-footer at least twice. Some, like Freshman John Brown of Holworthy Hall, practised from their windows (see cut), others in the gym. Among Harvard's reasons from stricter enforcement: last winter's Kenyon...