Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Douglas Hogg. Someone must always be Lord High Chancellor, but to have chosen a new one fit to rank "among the greatest," last week, would probably have meant returning to the Woolsack the brilliant Earl of Birkenhead, who sat thereon during 1919-22, but is now Secretary of State for India. Patently Lord Birkenhead does not want to impair his chances of perhaps someday becoming Prime Minister by again withdrawing from the hot arena of politics to the lofty precincts of the Lord High Chancellor. Therefore, last week, His Majesty was "advised" by the Baldwin Cabinet to call...
...answer to a saluting salvo from the U. S. S. Pittsburgh, steaming in. It was Diplomat-Admiral Mark Lambert Bristol, commander of U. S. naval forces in the Far East, arriving to pay Hongkong the first visit of his current assignment. After a week in British Hongkong, he meant to proceed 100 miles up the Canton River to Canton to investigate the South China "situation." At the proper moment, Hongkong's Governor, Sir Cecil Clementi, entertained Admiral Bristol & aides with a state dinner. Admiral Bristol repaid with a Pittsburgh repast...
...naughty professor gave us an examination on outside reading and outside reading only. And the nasty man didn't even ask us anything about the lectures." Such was the tenor of the wailing of Ass No. 1. It is rather difficult to know just what this particular ass meant by "outside reading." A certain amount of reading was assigned to be done outside of the class and why one should consider any of this reading as more outside than the rest of it is somewhat of an enigma. Furthermore, if this particular creature had gone to the lectures, he would...
...Their approval shall not be necessary in or to validate any decision or management by Nevin," said Rodman Wanamaker 's $100,000,000 will last week (TIME, Mar. 19). "Their" meant seven managing trustees. "Nevin" was William L. Nevin, lately obscure youthful lawyer, now by inheritance merchant princeling. "Nevin" will henceforth manage, irrespective of benefit of experience of seven advisers...
...audience, a Conservative rally of 12,000 persons at Albert Hall, applauded the new and yet familiar sequence of sounds. Just what it meant no one could be very sure, nor did Mr. Baldwin stop to explain. Instead he plunged to a ringing conclusion: "If in Great Britain our work for Democracy should fail, our failure would shake the very fabric of the universe...