Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tilsit, between Napoleon and Prussia, it was laid down that the Prussian Army was not to exceed 42,000 men. Prussia kept the treaty, but men like Scharnhorst, Clausewitz, Gneisenau, Stein, Grolmann, saw a way around it. They reorganized the Army on the basis of universal military service, which meant that they would never have an army of more than 42,000 men; but as the old classes were released, new classes were called up, and an effective trained reserve was formed...
...simply to tie the church to the chariot of Mars." It has been interpreted as an effort to "vindicate" the churches of pacifism, and the institution of chaplaincy has been used by the war system as a weapon to fight the churches' pacifism. "If the Federal Council meant its own words when it declared that war was the world's chief collective sin, it cannot find any apologetic for continuing the unholy alliance...
...Court, basing its decision on the spirit and intent of the codicil, decided against the contention of the companies and ruled that not every debt in a strict legal sense was meant. The word "forgive," declared the judge, introduced a personal note...
...clear that Benito meant that he would only quit the Senate and not the Premiership. He let it be known, by an attack on Senator Albertini, Editor of the Corriere della Sera (a Milanese paper which recently reached a daily circulation of one million copies), his bitterest enemy, that he would be uninfluenced by a noisy minority opposition. Affirmed he: "It has been said that I wish to remain in power at all costs. That is not true. I have always bowed to his Majesty the King's powers. If, at the end of this sitting, the King were...
...only Chicago newspaper that was not meant...