Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perversion of history to take the famous words, "All men are created equal," in the Declaration of Independence and misinterpret them as a constitutional basis for declaring that all races are equal. All this phrase meant was that the colonial English gentleman was the equal of the English gentleman in the home country...
What They Meant. The trouble began with a brief abstract in the A.M.A. Journal of a report on work done by a University of Oregon team of researchers. Delivered in San Francisco, the detailed paper described experiments done on a particular and unusual form of cancer in a particular strain of laboratory rats. Like some human cancers, this one will grow faster if the animals are given certain hormones, and will all but disappear under doses of other hormones...
...Englebert Dunphy, the university's chief of surgery, had to spend all his time explaining what his researchers had not meant to do, rather than what they accomplished-which was to satisfy themselves that hormones combined with radioactive phosphorus would slow or stop the growth of some rat tumors...
...what is right or wrong in a particular case." The main difference between Jus tice Harlan and the rest of the court, says a former Harlan law clerk, is that he "is confined by what he considers his limited role, which is to apply statutes as he thinks Congress meant them...
More Doll Than Boy. The first New World painters called themselves artisans and drew picture signs for taverns, or coated fire buckets, depending on the state of business. In that stern and frugal age, a commission for a portrait was a plum. "Limning" a portrait meant producing a flat two-dimensional likeness, and what gives tang to these works now is the period flavor and not any sureness of craft or conviction of life. Primitive, untutored and serene, the anonymous 1670 Portrait of Henry Gibbs is a charming example of the limner's style. The floor is in perspective...