Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although the Kansas legislators may not have known what they meant to put into this law, the Kansas Supreme Court did. The board in charge of disbursing the bonus decided that men in officers' training camps should receive a bonus only for their service after being commissioned. The Kansas Supreme Court declared they should be paid for the training camp service as well. The board decided that the bonus should continue for service till June 30, 1919. The Supreme Court said the bonus should be paid till the declaration of peace two years later. The board asked whether...
...Purple Highway. Madge Kennedy was meant for greater things. She struggles to render convincing the story of a poor little girl who, rushing into a musical comedy lead, wins fame and a husband. Struggling manfully at her side are Pedro de Cordoba and Monte Blue. But it's no go. The plot is too much for the three of them...
Robert E. Lee, Drinkwater's other play now running in London, was approved by the critics. It is meant as a companion play to Abraham Lincoln, and the two have many points of similarity, both technical and psychological...
...that has frequently been called style. Of its kind, it is a minor classic. The Critics. Hilaire Belloc in his preface: "The Wallet of Kai Lung (a predecessor to Kai Lung's Golden Hours) was a thing made deliberately, in hard material, and completely successful. It was meant to produce a particular effect of humor by the use of a foreign convention, the Chinese convention, in the English tongue. It was meant to produce a certain effect of philosophy and at the same time ... a certain completed interest of fiction, of relation, of a short epic...
...Moroccan Protectorate; it would aid her in quelling the Moors. France wanted it returned to the full suzerainty of the Sultan of Morocco; as the northern gate to French Morocco, Tangier would be very useful to the French. Britain and Spain objected to the French plan, because it meant making Tangier a French port. Britain's attitude was that she could not tolerate any strong Power directly opposite Gibraltar and advocated a revision of the present international regime. Unable to agree, the Conference dispersed...