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Word: meant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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These words, though blatant, were important, and vitally significant. They meant that the British Conservative Party expects to win again by telling John Bull and his women that the Labor Party (Socialist) is a pack of "Reds." In 1924 the "Red" stigma was fastened upon Labor Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, when the Conservatives released the notorious "Zinoviev Letter" on election eve. The "Letter" purported to show that Labor Leaders were receiving pay and orders from "Moscow." Today, after four years of pointing at the Red Bogey Man, the Conservatives and "Stability" Baldwin apparently believe that they can strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stanley for Stability! | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

They, thinking that the police meant to take away the holy screen dividing Jews from Jewesses, protested. Their ululations increased. They screeched, they snorted, they piped. They yauped. Several were belabored, dragged on the ground by the police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Pipes & Yaups | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

Friday afternoon an inter-dormitory cross country meet for Freshmen will being at 3.30 o'clock. This first organized meant of the hill and dale season will be short race, one and a quarter times sound the iron fence of Soldiers, Field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DORMITORY MEET WILL LAUNCH 1932 HARRIERS | 10/3/1928 | See Source »

Contractor William F. Kenny, owner of the "Santa Claus," burly, bluff, unpolitical, is the prime exemplar of what is meant by friendship with the Smith circle. He would give "his shirt" (estimated to be worth 40 millions) but no advice to the man whom he has known since they played together in the late Kenny Sr.'s firehouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Traveling Cabinet | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

...Raskob, Diamond Lil's new chauffeur, also declined to be interviewed. Nurses at the hospital, where he lay for awhile unconscious, say that he repeated over and over, 'Take me back to General Motors,' whatever he may have meant by that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hearst v. Smith | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

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