Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...less than two thirds its pre-War value. Consequently, people have to carry about a third again as many bills to purchase the same things, and many a dollar bill now has to be handled where silver change sufficed before; 2) the growth of the automobile industry has meant that garage men and gasoline vendors with oily hands touch much more money. There is nothing like oil to weaken the fibre and make a bill flabby, dirty...
...flopping, swishing, blinding, neck-tickling cap-tassel that is meant to depend over the left temple is uniformly black for bachelors and masters, golden for doctors...
...Murfin states them. Mr. Murfin all but says that Mr. Newberry was driven to resign by the atmosphere with which he was surrounded in the Senate. TIME did not refer to Mr. Newberry as an apologist for the Teapot Dome Lease. Senator Spencer, of course, was meant. "As an irreconcilable opponent ... as chief defender ... as a leading apologist"-all refer to "him," Senator Spencer, about whom the article as a whole was written...
...What he meant by that was this: With an average 18-hole score of 74 1/12 for the 24 rounds of the last six U. S. open championships, Jones leads all other medal golfers of this country, amateur and professional, by a comfortable margin. Jones' nearest competitor is Walter Hagen, average...
Perhaps this is what Mr. Clark meant by the "flapper" mind. His mistake has been to dismiss all student animadversion as being of this type. He almost ignores the serious and thoughtful criticism of American life in general, and of college life in particular, now appearing in many college papers. In some of them, at least, vagaries have given place to direct and definite analysis. The Dartmouth, for example, has seized upon some of the salient faults of "this generation of ours." Says the Hanover paper: "We are the froth of the post-war wave. This generation of ours...