Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been broken up into warring units. Likewise, it is true that the so-called Holy Roman Empire in North Central Europe reconciled some of the Jealousies and hostilities of a group of countries for nearly a thousand years. That combine distantly approached world government, which in past ages meant the government of Central and Southern Europe with the adjacent portions of Northern Africa and Western Asia. Yet the outcome of all, the efforts of European unification was fiercer animosities, more terrible wars and the subdivision of large countries into smaller and hostile units...
...radical, not in-between as are liberals in general, came as a result of his further explanation of the much-talked-of statements, regarding Harvard students as "snobs," which he made last spring before the graduating class of M. I. T., Denying the accusations of many that he had meant the term "snob" in a light unfavorable to Harvard, he explained that the term was one of the highest praise...
...hour or so up to breakfast time. ... In my first three terms in the assembly I knew nothing about lobbying, or anything els? that was going on, for that matter. . . . The newspapers often referred to Al Smith's Gang during my years in the legislature. That meant all my children, my wife, some of my sister's children, and, on some occasions, my mother...
...This meant adding eight pages to the paper, nearly doubling its size. It meant 60 additional correspondents, one at least in each State capital, several more in "subcapitals" like New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Los Angeles, Seattle. The State news was to be arranged by subjects, not by States, the criterion of significance being social rather than geographical...
...weather permitting, and the funeral will probably be later. She leaves two sisters, Faith and Charity, neither of whom was present yesterday. Philadelphia papers please copy. Last week the New York Herald Tribune published the following headline: ASSOCIATION MAKES INDOOR POLO BALL OF SOFT RUBBER OFFICIAL. By that it meant that the Indoor Polo Association met and decided that instead of an inflated, small-size basketball, indoor polo players will hereafter play with a new ball, 4½ in. thick like the old one, but of a sponge rubber composition, leather-covered with only one seam and without the lacings...