Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people that he was the Congressman who wangled the Army-Navy football game out of the East and onto Soldier Field, Chicago, two years ago-a "publicity stunt" if ever there was one. Moreover Mr. Britten had been notoriously a Big Navy man. His volte face could only be meant as a grandstand play. The political pundits on the sidelines blushed for their country...
...fair price for a fair symphony which is what Atterberg has delivered f. o. b. as per esteemed order of yesterday's date, and hoping for continuation of valued custom.";,Composer Atterberg took the same tack, let his laughter reverberate through the press: that all along he had meant it only as a joke; that he had deliberately plagiarized and that only one critic had guessed. The $10,000 was his, he said, and the laugh on them. But to many it seemed singularly empty laughter. The Columbia Phonograph Co.. donors of the prize money, could not believe...
...plane, she said nothing. It was supposed to have been a Fokker plane, the first of the Pan-American Airways Transport system, soon to open routes from Miami to Nassau, Havana, Camagüey (Cuba), San Juan, P. R. and, later, Mexico, Central and South America. The Fokker ship meant to have been christened Christopher Columbus had been cracked up the day before. The substitute Ford was leased...
...receive" the profits. For his silence the Senate indicted Col. Stewart for contempt. Also having learned that one-fourth of the Continental profits had been delivered to Col. Stewart the Senate indicted Col. Stewart for perjury. His explanation was that by "received" he thought the Senators had meant "profited personally." He admitted he had "received" the profits physically, "as a messenger boy" and conveyed them to his company...
Since Count Bethlen himself recently intimated that a royal election might be expected soon, his remarks of last week probably meant that the Allied Powers have quietly but firmly informed the Prime Minister that he must deflate his original trial balloon. On Nov. 10, 1921 the Hungarian Government was obliged to assure the Allied Conference of Ambassadors in Paris that no Habsburg would be placed on the Hungarian Throne. The nation, now a "Kingless Kingdom," is technically free to elect anyone not a Habsburg to be King...