Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition, left-half Chet Boulris has been practicing with the "B" squad this week, but Yovicsin emphasized that this in no way meant he had demoted his star runner. "I'm just shaking up the team to give some of the boys a boost," the coach stated. Don Gerety and Bruce McIntyre have shared the left-half post thus far this week...
Faculty in the Fine Arts Department expressed enthusiasm at Gombrich's appointment. Seymour Slive, associate professor of Fine Arts, declared yesterday that Gombrich's dual role of historian and philisopher meant that "his voice carries special weight...
Angelo carried the same sobriety into his work at school; he was only eleven when he decided to be a priest, and though the expense meant a sacrifice for his parents, Angelo went to study at the seminary in Bergamo, the quiet, medieval "town of 100 churches." He won a scholarship to the Pontifical Seminary in Rome, was ordained at 25, and said his first Mass in St. Peter's Basilica...
...surprised to learn he was a vice-president of a stocks and bonds company. For the public, or in addressing incoming graduate students, he stressed scholarly achievement; but in the in-fighting, some of it done in deadly silence, he was for what he called compromise, by which he meant giving promotions and substantial raises to the undeserving, so that everyone could attend each other's cocktail parties in the most amicable mood. He was a friendly man, and he wanted everyone to be happy and satisfied. Visiting on another campus or at a national meeting, he smilingly acknowledged...
...gray-haired librarian who worked at the circulation desk, as well as the entire department. Briggs, Ford, and Hall were among the pallbearers. Even after classes had been going for some weeks, Ford and Hall found themselves still depressed. Over coffee they talked about Greg and what he had meant to them. The truth was that his passing had left them feeling isolated and, as Hall said, somehow suddenly middle-aged. Each allowed himself a few jibes at those of Greg's colleagues who had not properly appreciated...