Word: means
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German cases pending against Catholics for smuggling or perversion. Ordering sweeping retrials the Realmleader intimated that hereafter the Church will have an opportunity to expel presumably guilty priests, nuns or friars from its ranks so that they can go to trial as lay persons. Such sudden action appeared to mean that Adolf Hitler, just now more attracted than ever by Nazi schemes of launching a war to wipe Bolshevism out of Russia, was prepared to take at something like face value overtures of aid made to Der Führer last week by German cardinals and bishops meeting at Fulda...
...mean to write it!" cried Zinoviev...
Inquisitor: Do you mean that you do not know how you became a member of the board...
Thus last week Berlin considered that Washington had acted with intolerable presumption, and Dr. Schacht, fighting mad, was reported to have exclaimed, "They mean to kill our trade with them? All right, let's kill their trade with us! Afterward we can build it up again on a new basis...
Hedging is insurance against price changes. When its warehouses are bulging, a 1?-per-lb. drop in cotton would mean a $10,000,000 loss to Anderson, Clayton if its holdings were not hedged...