Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...willing to accept the little Peruvian portfolio. There was work to be done at Lima. He was needed to settle the Tacna-Arica question. Now he had attended to that matter, under President Hoover's guidance, of course. All this his smile seemed to imply -but it really meant nothing of the kind. The so-called Hoover Solution awarding Arica and its nitrates to Chile, and the twin mining province of Tacna to Peru, with a six-million-dollar payment by Chile to Peru to boot-all this had been virtually agreed upon by the two countries prior...
...Samuel Smith Drury who last week said that "since . . . the nature of this appointment must be of a wholly indeterminate nature I feel no longer impelled to leave work of assured usefulness to accept the post, honorable as it is." By "indeterminate nature" Dr. Drury meant that he could not tell when he would succeed Bishop Garland, which is the in alienable right of all bishop coadjutors when their bishops retire or die. When he was nominated Dr. Drury wrote to Bishop Garland, asked him when he would retire. The Bishop, who is 62, refused to name a date...
...interested in newspapers with "this man Block." Conferences and the American agreement resulted. Publisher Hearst was pleased to have much worry suddenly re moved from his large but heavily burdened shoulders. Pleased also was Publisher Block, for with the added worry to his shoulders came added opportunities. The agreement meant a closer association be tween the two publishers, and friends of Mr. Block argued this possibility: were Mr. Block to keep the American substantially out of the red, might it not some day be profitable for him to buy the news paper? And might not that lead Publisher Block...
TIME certainly meant no depreciation of gracious Mrs. Coolidge. The distinction drawn was purely one in kind, not degree, of charm...
...Harvard CRIMSON, daily undergraduate paper, had an editorial the other day complaining about the unkempt condition of the college grounds, and about the houses rented to the students which it stated would be better fitted for the surroundings of East Boston. Obviously the article was not meant as a reflection on the people living in East Boston. It was merely an effort to improve conditions under which the students are living, and the reference to the East Boston district may or may not have been...