Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eminence of 100-group courses, as they are now constituted, seems to be one of he reasons why instructors treat course material from a technical viewpoint. These courses are meant for both undergraduates and graduate students. But in the great majority of cases, the subject-matter of a 100-group course is not meant for both groups, but rather is chosen primarily to aid the graduate student attain a technical mastery of the discipline...
Milgram sued, claiming that the city had violated the 14th Amendment by grabbing up land meant for integrated homes. The Illinois Supreme Court heard the case, turned Milgram down, saying: "The power of eminent domain cannot be made to depend upon the peculiar social, racial, religious or political predilections of either the condemning authority or the affected property owner." Milgram's attorney appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court...
...banks helped small businesses to get on their feet, Shoman decided that what the Arabs needed was their own bank-an enterprise that no Moslem had so far undertaken because of the Koran's injunction against usury. Devout Shoman felt certain that the Prophet had not meant to forbid honest commercial banking, and in 1929, taking the considerable money he had earned in the U.S., he returned to Palestine...
...French dissatisfaction that Demagogue Caouette exploited was the feeling that French Canadians had been cheated out of their birthright. They thought, said Mike Pearson, that Confederation "meant partnership, not domination." but the result has been "an English-speaking Canada with a bilingual Quebec." In Ottawa, French-speaking civil servants are even required to write to each other in English-for ease of filing. Young French intellectuals bitterly call themselves the "white Negroes" of Canada. French Canadians outside Quebec, crusading for schooling in their own language, were recently told by a school trustee of one large Ontario city: "We have...
...Communism; he never became the white god of some overcredulous tribe of aborigines; he does not have the lives of 10,000 better men lost in battle to explain away; he is not a busybody determined to pad the record of a long life spent in well-meant public mischief; he is not the survivor of unprecedented surgery or the sole eyewitness of some notable assassination or natural disaster; and he was never sentenced to 99 years in jail for something...