Word: meant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lewis said repeatedly that his stories were not meant to be pure allegory but instead were designed to allow children (and adults) to think about fundamental truths--about God--by making up stories about what might happen were God to come to another world: here, Narnia. George Lucas said recently, in an interview with Bill Moyers, that he hopes the mythology of his movies will make children think about this greater existence, about the possibility that there is more to life than our little world. And it does...
Social life. Harvard has not built a "real" student center, the final clubs remain the site of much of the party action and the presence of fraternities and sororities has slowly begun to expand. Still, the growth of extracurricular organizations and the post-randomization era of house life has meant a wider array of weekend offerings. The decision by many final clubs to shut their doors to non-members also bodes well for the further democratization of Harvard's social scene. Verdict: Better to even...
However, the bill's authors maintain the billwas meant to define marriage "positively," notprohibitively...
...travails of the traveling--or moving--businessperson. Especially if it's him. Last April he took a job as vice president of operations for Regent International Hotels, a chain of luxury hotels owned by the Carlson Cos., a travel and restaurant conglomerate based in Minneapolis, Minn. The switch meant a move from Dallas to Minneapolis for himself, his wife Barbara and daughters Cassandra, 8, and Lauren, 10. Beard likes the new employment opportunity, but as a veteran of 14 previous employment relocations, he was braced for a rough landing...
...video clip and a number of record and CD covers, and his enthusiasm, sense of invention and plain wicked fun was contagious. Tibor had no patience with design that merely made things elegant, pretty or beautiful; he always aspired to design that was equal to the content, that meant something, told us about the way we live and took responsibility for itself. He made things that woke us out of our slumber with a kiss or a raspberry. I'll miss...