Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bill, recently debated in the Lords (TIME, June 22), to prevent cruelty to animals, came up for discussion. Brigadier General Cockerill (Conservative), in defending the flea, indignantly observed that that maxim De minimis non curat Iex meant that "The flea doesn't worry the Home Secretary." Although the flea was not an animal or a reptile, he thought fleas should be included in the bill...
Last week, news came from Darjeeling in the Province of Bengal that Chitta Ranjan Das, the famous Indian Nationalist, was dead. His career and what it meant to India...
Probably nothing could have been farther from the truth, in the sense that the criticism was meant. Had she not waited these years for England to get over its feeling against Austrian artists? Does she not tremble, feeling inadequate, and cross herself 90 times, before going on in the most unimportant performance...
Germany, last February, offered to enter into an equal engagement with Britain, France and Belgium to guarantee the Rhine frontier against aggression. This meant two things: 1) That Germany was prepared voluntarily to do what the Allies had been unable to force her to do-renounce all claims to Alsace-Lorraine, accept the present frontier; 2) that Germany, as a disarmed nation, was more in need of security than France, a heavily armed nation. Unfortunately, the offer was complicated by a categoric assertion that the proposed treaty in no way bound Germany to accept the Eastern frontiers between Poland...
When, last year, France recognized Russia (TIME, Nov. 10, FRANCE), that act literally meant only the appointment of ambassadors. A commission was formed to come to an agreement on the debts which France said Russia owed her and the reparations which Russia said France owed...