Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What "furor" meant to Desiré Mercier was discreetly hinted by foxy Architect Warren, who revealed that the Cardinal said, two months before his death: "When the Germans come back [to Louvain] as they will and as they have through the past centuries, when they read this inscription countersigned by America perhaps they may behave themselves more decently than they did the last time...
...revolution" would go remained to be seen, but last week's developments proved Mrs. Bailie right in one respect. The "revolution" of the Daughters was not over. In New Haven, Conn., awakening to what Mrs. Bailie meant and what had happened to her, a dozen more Daughters-distinguished ones, too-not only rose in revolt, but marched right out of the D. A. R., resigned...
...This meant that disarmed Germany will sign without reservations a peace pact which militant France has intimated that she cannot sign because it might conflict with her commitments to the League and her allies-commitments which may obligate her to go to war (TIME, April 30). How different is the position of Germany-which has no military alliances-was cleverly emphasized last week, in Dr. Stresemann's note: "The German Government is convinced that . . . the obligations arising from the Covenant of the League of Nations and the [Locarno] Rhine Pact . . . contain nothing which could in any way conflict with...
...Dunninger, psychic condition meant nothing. In a biographical sketch which he contributed to Science and Invention Magazine the publication which sponsored his most recent strange doings, he calmly remarked: "Good 'patter' speeches well studied, and a smiling personality, spell success in magical performances...
Reporters, telegraphers, editors, printers were the first to feel the effect of their flight; to them it meant just another day of newspapers. Skippers of steamships next craned their necks, scanning the leaden skies for some sign of this fleeting Bremen.* But when Baron Ehrenfried Gunther von Huenefeld, Capt. Hermann Koehl and Maj. James C. Fitzmaurice dropped onto the frozen waste of Greenly Island in Southern Labrador, far off their expected course, they gave Lighthouse Keeper Le Tempier a torch with which to light the fires of the world...