Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tientsin, or even 650 miles southward to Shanghai, was contemplated. The reaction of John Van Antwerp MacMurray, alert, pugnacious U. S. Minister at Peking, was to keep the cables busy with code messages which legation officials privately said were appeals for instructions to stand pat at Peking. . . . This meant that Minister MacMurray was looking out for troops to defend the Legation from possible captors of Peking. Late in the week he seemed to be getting the troops he sought. Marine Commander-in-China General Smedley Darlington Butler rushed north from Shanghai, landed two troop ships carrying...
...Williamsport, Pa., and in Collinwood (outskirt of Cleveland), two little bands of workmen have been holding regular meetings after shop hours. They are employes of the New York Central R. R., and "bands" is meant musically. The week of June 12 the men will take their instruments to Grand Central and LaSalle Street stations, respectively, and serenade the Twentieth Century Limited as it starts out June 15 on its Silver (25th) Anniversary...
...TIME meant no harshness toward Reader Gibbon. TIME merely defended its policy of printing letters as received, misspellings...
...Dictator not in wild, bombastic vein, but warmly and humanly ruminative over the whole fertile land of his endeavors. The correspondents, plowing their usual rut, cabled in distorted and sensationalized form only what II Duce called the "goad" of his speech. Still worse, the correspondents twisted this until it meant almost the opposite of what Premier Mussolini went...
...only educators but publicists also praise them so highly. They illustrate the vision that the brotherhood of letters and community of culture knows no boundaries which restrict intercourse. Differences there are between nations in all things. But it is established among civilized peoples that these differences are meant to delight and inspire rather than to repel the scholar or the scientist. From foreign contacts, moreover, native students bring back new notions applicable, usually, to the educational system of their own country, sometimes to other features of its life also. The current ideas afloat in our colleges, the tutorial system...