Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...principal consumer region. During the reading of the Committee's report-signed by its U. S. Chairman, William F. Snow-a member of the French delegation rose to protest the Committee's translation of tenancière into English as "madame." Tenancière, he protested, meant a woman who kept disorderly premises; and madame is the ordinary title of married Frenchwomen. Tiems! Did the Committee propose to slander at one stroke all the honest wives of France...
...discover what George III meant by "coast" the Privy Council turned to the first great English dictionary, work of that inspired if pompous king of 18th Century letters, Dr. Samuel Johnson. Once George III encountered the great Doctor in the Royal Library, and very considerately shouted in his ear during a brief audience, knowing him to be deaf. The Privy Council cited the dictionary of Dr. Johnson as defining what George III meant by "coast" as follows: "The edge or margin of land next to the sea [and also], a considerable tract of land bounded by and looking towards...
...What is meant by "pornographic...
...spite of tempting glance, Blaring jazz and modern dances And the fact that all their wiles for you are meant. (meant meant...
...State Frank B. Kellogg assumedly prompted Vice Admiral Clarence S. Williams, commanding the U. S. forces at Shanghai, to imitate the British parade, though in more cautious fashion. Twelve hundred U. S. marines marched, but they did not venture beyond the international city. None the less Chinese knew this meant that the U. S. is standing with Britain in the present crisis...