Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wherefore the Chicago newspapers, with one exception, had cause for concern in the indignation of the Woodlawn suburbanites.* The Chicago Tribune was meant as one of the "certain newspapers." The Chicago Daily News was meant. The Journal (Hearst) was meant. The Herald-Examiner (Hearst) was meant. The only Chicago newspaper of any dimensions that was not meant was The Journal of Commerce?terse, unemotional, efficient business man's daily, which one Woodlawn Business Man particularized, together with the earnest Christian Science Monitor, as being a "clean sheet...
...necessary assurances were not forthcoming; and when the program of the Business Committee was adopted Mr. Porter declined to cast a vote. The limit placed on the scope of the Conference was, however, thought by many to be largely academic, which meant that the U. S. delegation would have ample opportunity of pressing U. S. suggestions...
After the funeral ceremony, Lord Allenby, attired in a lounge suit, left the Residency in an automobile, which was followed by a troop of cavalry. His square-set jaw announced to those who saw him that he meant business; and those who had served with him in Palestine knew that when Lord Allenby means business something happens...
...housed them, the atmospheres that colored their lives . . . from the low-ceilinged room of the 17th Century ... to the ballroom where Washington danced and the fine rooms of the early 19th Century." Wandering through the passages of that new wing, members of the notable gathering saw what Lawyer Root meant. There were many rooms, built in older decades for homes, set up again for History...
...speak (see TIME, Nov. 10, page 28) of "Harvard substitutes chastising Boston College." Wrong, of course. On the day in question, Boston College was thrashing the Haskell Indians 34 to 7 or some such score- the same Indians who last Saturday took a thumping fall put of Brown. You meant Boston University. No correction suggested, merely a note for hereafter. And no publicity for this. I have only commendation for your good work and solid best wishes for its continued success. MYLES CONNOLLY...