Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Parliamentary tributes paid, last week, to the late Herbert Henry Asquith, Earl of Oxford and Asquith, that of James Ramsay MacDonald was perhaps most moving. Speaking as a Laborite who had fought Liberal Prime Minister Asquith, Mr. MacDonald said: "He was the last of what Victorians meant by great parliamentarians-men of leisure and culture, formality and dignity, learning and catholicity. . . . He was a sturdy champion whose mellow mind and rich, sonorous oratory so often lulled our watchful intelligence to sleep. We gave him our applause forgetful of the gulfs that separated us and of all the challenges that would...
...Permanent Secretariat teems constantly with women & young women directed by a few males. Several times a year there are big convention weeks when the Council meets, or the Assembly, or both. Moreover the League draws smart and moneyed spectators to neighboring hotels. For seven years the League plum has meant rich lickings to the Swiss city of Geneva. Suddenly, last week, President Edmund Schulthess of Switzerland learned with hopping indignation that the Austrian Government is now definitely bidding in the manner of a chamber of commerce to entice the League to Vienna...
...meant that an acute stage has been reached in the crisis of agriculture v. industry. The peasants have refused to sow and sell a surplus of grain above their own needs unless offered manufactured goods in exchange. They have not been offered these goods in sufficient quantities, because not even Dictator Stalin has been able to spur Russian industry to adequate production. Therefore the Soviet State has recently fallen behind in its efforts to buy grain from the peasantry by poods...
Tony came to the Berkenmeer hospital with an injured arm which, it was tacitly understood among the golfing-aviators, would not prevent him from breaking anyone's jaw. But "Berkenmeer was meant for 'officers and gentlemen,' as the phrase ran"; so, acting on an inverse snobbism, Tony kept to himself. The only man with whom Tony had anything in common-they could both walk on their hands-was Harvey Sayles, an educated and war-shocked aviator, who thought out loud because he liked to hear himself think. He was the kind of a man who reads...
...Queen City of the West. It concluded by reporting that Cincinnatians, animated by a progressive spirit, were ambitious to make it a "Queen City" once more. The two provocative phrases were a) that Cincinnati "has drooped, malnourished industrially:" b) that it "has become bedraggled and dirty." Both sentences were meant in a comparative sense. Comparatively, Cincinnati has drooped, many another midland city having shown a far greater rate of industrial growth in the last 50 years. As to dirt, last fortnight the American Society of Heat and Ventilating Engineers ranked Cincinnati as second-sootiest of 24 large U. S. cities...