Word: means
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Therefore, when the unamended draft was signed June 28, 1919. these Governments were fully conscious of the fact that the German Government held the reverse opinion toward the so-called "war guilt." As a matter of course, no signature obtained by violence from a contracting party can pretend to mean "admittance...
Result was another standoff. For direct quotation onetime History Professor Dodd declared of his interview: "We accompanied the delivery of our instructions with a verbal expose of what the attacks mean in the way of beclouding German-American relations, but left it to the German authorities to draw their own conclusions." U. S. correspondents in Berlin reported authoritatively that mild Ambassador Dodd had actually barked one of the stiffest complaints ever delivered by one Government to another, proclaiming the U. S. Government & people thoroughly shocked by the Nazi press's "unparalleled coarse, indecent language." But his trip...
...dangers they are facing in the Communistic movement now under way in this country." In Manhattan on receipt of an order from Fuhrer Kuhn last week for his followers to acquire snappy new uniforms patterned on the American Legion's, "American Nazi" spokesmen observed: "It does not mean that they will be compelled to. They will just be urged to. ... Every one has the Sam Browne belts anyway...
...remarked that if the Houses were nicknamed according to their characteristics, we might be referring to the "Lowell Bells", and the "Eliot Court". The best, however, he believed, would be the "Dunster Chimneys". Those chimneys that create our skylne have a greater significance than most people notice. They mean fire-places. There are less than half a dozen rooms in the House without fire-places, despite the never falling central heating system, and about them on long winter evenings the flow of good ale is mixed with the flow of equally good conversation...
...have mentioned the stabilizing value of a knowledge of history: by this I do not mean that a study of history makes one a conservative, let alone a reactionary. . . . But both parties are wiser if they know their own past and that of their opponents. It was a statesman who was also a philosopher who wrote, 'No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. To make anything very terrible obscurity seems in general to be necessary. When we know the full extent of any danger, when we can accustom our eyes...