Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard student by a policeman of three weeks standing. The complications of violated traffic signals and the search for a stolen car happily caused no more damage than the puncturing of a hat. But a change of a few degrees in the course of the bullet would have meant death...
...been a hot question in the South for ten years. It is still such a hot question that Editor Edward John Meeman of the Knoxville News-Sentinel thought Nominee Hoover's government-in-business passage did not tell the South enough. He asked the Nominee point-blank what it meant. Then came the first Hoover postscript: "You may say that means Muscle Shoals...
...said: "It is difficult to understand why Hoover didn't say he was for government ownership and government operation of Muscle Shoals, or either or neither, instead of saying something else, then pointing to it and saying further, 'that means Muscle Shoals'; then, two days later, interpreting what he meant by "that...
MEXICO "Earthquake! Earthquake!" "Mexico's Idol of Flesh and Blood" was boldly denounced and defied before the Mexican Congress last week by fiery spellbinder and factional leader Senor Antonio Soto y Gama. Though he dared not name "Mexico's Idol," the denouncer clearly meant bullnecked, heavy-jowled President Plutarco Elias Calles. When Senor Calles' term expires, in December, it is understood that he will become the Leader ("Boss") of the new "Grand National Revolutionary Party." This will reunite the national majority once dominated by the late, assassinated President-Elect Alvaro Obregon (TIME, July 30); and therefore factional...
Again war meant the distinction of West Point through its graduates. The long list of one-time cadets whose service on either side in the Civil War was outstanding is too well known for comment. But the apathy of peace meant forgetfulness anew of West Point's im- portance, and for 30 years the progress of the Academy was little noted. With the turn of the century a new administration came into power on the Hudson, and a climatic period of growth accompanied it. The Corps was increased by 100 cadets, hazing was abolished, and practically all the present magnificent...