Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...majority argued: it is much better to unsnarl the whole administrative tangle by legislating automatic eligibility for students with the proper collection of grades. Yet the opposition was quick to point out that to lift the restriction setting the choice for C.L.G.S. or thesis-cum-tutorial an early deadline meant that seniors could drop the thesis at any stage they wished. And, the opposition remarked darkly, many seniors would...
...notably silent manner, he has become not only one of Harvard's most thorough innovators but one of its great revolutionaries as well. Leighton has done so much for the University that it is easy to understand what one of his former freshmen meant when he said. "To us, he was just plain Harvard...
Nonetheless, the House, to the great majority replying, meant more than the sum total of its physical and cultural parts. The assumed advantages of the Houses (contact with resident faculty, incorporated library and dining system, cultural and athletic organizations), though not specified on the poll, were felt to be inherent and unique in Harvard's residence system rather than merely part of any good dormitory...
...offset it. The revision of depreciation allowances is now reckoned to cost the Treasury another $1 billion in 1962-63. Congress also failed to enact the higher postal rates on which the Administration counted to garner about $500 million in revenue, and its repudiation of the farm program meant bigger Government outlays for supports than anticipated. Result: while the Government will spend $93.7 billion, its receipts are estimated at only $85.9 billion...
...Note: Mr. Babe has said precisely and thoroughly just what I was trying to express in my very awkward review. I never meant to Imply that we must see "The Ghost Sonata" through Strindberg's psychological history, or even that we must be aware of this history. That would be bad journalism and bad sense. But I did mean that Evil or not, a stage imposes some detachment on its audience, and that we can only overcome this detachment by seeing the play as "shifting states of mind" with which we can sympathize--"immediate, second-to-second perceptions and judgments...