Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...find every type of mind and character that could be herded from the remotest ends of the earth, and the supreme purpose of every man seems to be to make a noise in his own peculiar way. I have always been under the impression, my dear Usbek, that education meant preparation, taken in its broadest sense. But here it seems to mean accomplishment, such as that is understood. These Satellites all want to draw the eyes of their fellows upon themselves, and if they fall, they think their education is a failure. They crave applause, and grant it too, upon...
...Solicitor General of the United States. ... I have had charge for the Government of 983 cases in the Supreme Court during the last four years and have, at times, through force of circumstances, performed the double duty of Acting Attorney General and Solicitor General. . . . The work has meant a very great strain to my eyesight which has never been of the best...
...left penniless if anything happens to the breadwinner: 'Here is another case of the Conservative Party helping their friends.' Let them go in 1928 to the 500,000 men and women of 65 who will march or hobble up to receive their pensions and say: 'Comrades, we meant to give you these pensions ourselves; we would have given them to you on a noncontributory basis, but we had to go and help our Russian friends first...
...plethora of comment inflated the receptive pages of journals, hebdomadals and mensals to show whether or not the election of Generalfeldmarschall Paul von Hindenburg to the German Presidency meant "this," meant "that." A consensus of more reliable opinion averred that the Field Marshal's election was an omen of good import, that it meant the beginning of a rule of law and order with no immediate, though probably a later (one writer mentioned ten years) restoration of the monarchy, that it presaged a fuller return of foreign confidence and a resumption by Germany of her place in the comity...
...explaining of the libretto of Boheme. Therefore, let it be recorded that guns are going off almost continually, nearly every member of the cast is kidnapped before the evening is over and that the whole difficulty is finally solved by Van Cleve of Scotland Yard. All is meant to be very funny and, for the most part, lives up to its intention. Two amazing comic detectives, Clifford Dempsey and Frank McCormack, helped the audience to its happiest moments...