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The first issue that came up was the need for bells to signify great victories and Perkins stated that the bells will ring if Harvard beats Princeton tomorrow or if Lowell House wins the intramural football league.
"Nationalism" is an equally irrelevant term. Since their destruction and partition in 1945, the "Reich" and the "nation" have simply not been realities to the Germans. The very meager successes of the noisy "nationalist" parties signify more protest against existing economic inadequacies than passion for a political ideal.
The membership of the group unanimously failed to signify disapproval of Andrews' protest. He continued, "I always thought the $12.25 rate was a little excessive, but now maybe something ought to be done."
If Novelist Keyes intended this embrace to signify a reconciliation of Boston's warring classes - indeed, there is internal evidence that she meant it to be a kiss of world peace-no reader of good will can object. Even the sourbellies will have to admit that such an author...
J. Alfred Prufrock ("I grow old. ... I grow old. ... I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled"). "The young man in Prufrock" said Eliot, "is meant to signify someone young and sportive and a man conscious of growing old."