Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...supports the Iraquians (Arab inhabitants of Iraq) against Turkish claims to Mosul. The Turks claim Mosul on ethnological grounds, a claim which is patently absurd, because the percentage of Turks there is small. None of the nations concerned utter so much as one syllable about oil-but oil is meant just the same...
This, according to counsel for the defendants, meant little or nothing. "Mr. Tomadelli never claimed that he had perfected the lamp," he stated. "He had not. He was an inventor working on an invention. The public bought the stock in the hope that the invention would be made commercially success...
...member of the football team for three years, is now president of the Harvard Varsity club. "Wendell," he continued, "by the greatest possible enthusiasm and spirit got every one else interested in track. His power of leadership, genuine zest for competition, and ability to communicate his enthusiasm to others meant everything to track athletics at Harvard...
...head" and the "heart" as guides to action was somewhat unwarrantably prejudiced in favor of the latter. When one reflects that almost all of the present and past ills of mankind have been brought about by the following of the dictates of the "heart"--if by "heart" is meant everything except "head" and that the only advances which have been made by humanity--advances of an unusually materialistic sort--have resulted more or less directly from the efficient "headword" of those who have trained themselves to doubt--one is inclined to distrust ahe murmurings of the heart and to search...
...days when the Black Prince shattered the Genoese cross-bowmen at Crecy, and Sir John Chandos was the model of knightly chivalry for all the young squires of England, to be a duke or a marquis, or even a baronet, meant something. When the sword of the sovereign touched a blood-stained shoulder, all the world knew that the favored one had accomplished a mighty deed of valor, or that the army of King Philip had lost another eagle. The golden spur implied bravery, and honorable achievement...