Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...registration today an opportunity will be given for everybody to obtain a ticket for the parade. The ticket will entitle the holder to a crimson cap and gown and a torch to be carried by each member of the club." This was in the days when an election meant a frantic torchlight procession around the Square, burnings in effigy, and collegiate ballyhoo...
...suggest you write paper stating about as follows-'I did not expect you take my letter of yesterday as seriously as you did, for it was only meant as a joke. I am on the membership commence of the Hoover-for-President Club and my signature on the club paper is bona fide...
Should Nominee Smith fail to carry his own state he would not only stand no chance of election this year, but he would probably be politically dead, especially to himself. What the Roosevelt nomination meant, to the Brown Derby, how the local "situation" stood, was bound to become as familiar to the national electorate as many a broader phase of the national campaign. It was this...
...course, "somewhere" meant the Presidential Hunting Lodge, on secluded, wimpling Lake Werbellin, a scant 40 miles from Berlin, yet remote as a hut in the Black Forest...
...entirely clear to the layman, this threat was not misunderstood by fearful traders. It meant, in two words: "BROKERS' LOANS." And to emphasize the point, brokers' loans mounted last week to $4,569,978,000, highest for all time, surpassing even the figure for June 6. Apparently undisturbed, the stock-market went about its business, saw a seat sold for a record $425,000, dickered for the adjoining 20-story Postal Telegraph building as an annex, appointed Mrs. Catherine M. Healy of Montclair, N. J., as its first woman purchasing agent...