Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This was meant partly as a crack across the knuckles for U. S. Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl, who, as chief of the General Accounting Office, stands at the outgoing end of the U. S. budget system. Never a harmonious team, the Messrs. Dawes and McCarl took hold of the newborn budget and accounting system simultaneously in 1921.?Said General Dawes: "The Comptroller General . . . has thus far failed in carrying out the accounting purpose of our present law. We have in the U. S., therefore, only the old-fashioned and entirely inadequate cash accounting system...
...program was florid, blinking Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart of Iowa. A vociferous champion of radical farm measures, Senator Brookhart had pleaded the Hoover cause in 200 stump speeches last autumn. He had shouted to rural audiences that the Republican candidate was "progressive" on farm legislation. "Progressive" in those days meant much more than it does...
Stravinsky's power of attraction lies in his reputation for being "primitive." He is "primitive" no longer, but Les Noces is a perfect example of what used to be meant by that term. Written for percussion instruments, piano, four soloists and a chorus, it was given last week under the enthusiastic baton of Philadelphia Conductor Leopold Anton Stanislaw Stokowski...
...Russia by Leopold Stokowski, enterprising maestro of the Philadelphia Orchestra (see below). He plans performances in Philadelphia and Manhattan with the assistance of the Mendelssohn Choir and eminent soloists to be announced. Moussorgsky wrote in 1872: "While I was writing Boris, I was Boris." Revival for Boris thus meant resurrection for the "debauched, defeated" composer whose madness of yesterday is the modernity of today...
...scholar who has ventured to resign at the end of his second year as at one who has let his committee down," seemed at the time of writing ample justification for the CRIMSON's stand on this point. The expression "social sin" employed by the CRIMSON was not meant to indicate that any definite contract had to be entered into by the Rhodes Scholars...