Word: means
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would buy at least twelve copies that I might have a fresh one through the year. What would this mean to TIME, to Studebaker, to the companies represented and particularly to Studebaker salesmen? I am asking...
...fight it. High-minded Chamberlain and grave Halifax, two Shakespearean characters in a tragic drama, spoke of right, of justice, of the moral problems of the conflict (see p. 27). Benito Mussolini, as befitted a student of Machiavelli, said little and made that little mean much or nothing (see p. 21). Harsh Molotov in Moscow jeered at hopeful democrats and alone of the world's spokesmen said nothing of war's misery-of which Adolf Hitler no less than Lenin showed himself fully conscious (TIME, Sept...
...countries of Europe, and although a swift Polish victory could draw them in, none moved as the talking stopped, the shooting started. More completely alone than any great power at the start of any great war, Germany plunged into conflict so vast that victory for her could only mean, not that a lightning war was irresistible, but that Adolf Hitler had measured himself against Napoleon...
...colonies would take it. Nobody was surprised that Australia and New Zealand last week declared war on Germany, called up reservists, promised Britain "full support." That 50 Indian potentates promised to send troops and resources, that the Fiji Islands (pop. 29,000) pledged material assistance-what did this mean except that the British Empire was acting as it always acted in a crisis...
Civilian casualties from air raids present a gruesome but not a professionally difficult problem to medicine. Nowadays medical treatment for civilians in wartime is primarily a problem in organization, and to doctors air raids mean nothing more than a monstrous epidemic of chest, neck and skull wounds, of broken arms, legs and backs. Furthermore, while an ordinary epidemic catches doctors unawares, this era's doctors have had plenty of time to prepare...