Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with bow and arrow instead of club and ball. Standing on tees they had shot arrows toward greens. Walking to where the arrows had landed, they had shot again. Regulation archery targets had been set up on the greens, substitutes for ice-filled cups. A bull's-eye had meant a "dropped" putt. A shot anywhere on the target had meant that the next putt would be automatically conceded...
...Reverend Mr. Barnard, who, in the middle of the last century, replaced the old library which had been lost by fire with a new one of his own. The colleges in those days was not the prosperous organization it is now, and such a gift meant as much then as would the gift of a new library today, should Widener burn to the ground...
...That sounds like saying, 'My relations with .the rats are friendly, and I have put poison in the kitchen to prove it.'" All this was a very good joke. It meant that 95% of the U. S. citizens who heard about the King's speech at all got a totally false impression-and, perhaps, a good laugh, a titter or a heehaw...
...care any more for Germans than they do now, but I was recommended as a German who had evaded his military service in Germany. ... By 1920 I was a lieutenant. I fought very loyally for the French. ... I risked my life for them thousands of times, but that meant nothing. Some of the officers could hardly keep from calling me 'Boche,' all because I was born in Germany. At last, at a little dinner in Fez, a certain French captain got drunk and called me a Boche. I knocked him down, and got out before the guards came...
...wins applause. She marries an artistic wanderer, who then dies. At home she finds Julia also a widow. They settle down to an earnest sisterly tussle for admiration and happiness, envy matching envy with competitive malice. Julia still has money and looks, so the reader's sympathy is meant to go to crippled, homely, honest Elena. But Elena is more shrewish than shrewd. Her experiments with new religions are wan and woeful. The backgrounds -Manhattan, Italy, unnamed places -are nebulously uninteresting, taking the edge off such intensity as Authoress MacConnell and her characters may possess. A ripe theme...