Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matter of fact, there was little comment con, and less pro, if by comment is meant competent critical appraisal of the work of Mr. Kalish. His structural steel workers, choppers, diggers, pourers, are handled with the respect due to big muscles, energy and the artistic principles of the late Auguste Rodin. To use the means with which Rodin got at metaphysical truth, the forces behind men and women, figures erect and hazardously separated from the earth that put life in them-to use this means for reproducing, as by a good magazine illustration, the overalled figures of U. S. industry...
...success to the routine of life which I have followed. My mother used to impress upon me the value of a strict routine of life. When I was six years old I made my stage debut as a child toe dancer. This was a rather early start and meant months of hard work before. I was carefully trained for the ordeal. My stepfather and my sisters taught me to dance and I was hailed as one of those child wonders. However, I had to follow strict rules, even in the earlier travels of the Miller family, and my mother...
...last camp! I suddenly realized that we had come to the end of the journey and what that meant. A certain sentimental melancholy seized he, as I reflected that I should probably never see again Hamida's genial grin, or again witness Edda's barbaric feats of skill with gun and dagger; but, as the brazen sky cooled and paled. I offered a silent prayer that once more our paths should cross...
...shown to be nothing more than that. Yet we have seen fit to preach peace abroad. The accusation is obvious, and most of the facts substantiate it outwardly. America has done little enough to repair the damage of the war. It was previously hoped that at least we meant well, if we acted ineffectively. The debt settlements are evidently unsatisfactory to some nations, but the senators who justified them argued that our terms were generous. What becomes of our vaunted generosity and idealism, slightly shown before now that the disarmament treaty which we took the lead in formulating...
Significance. Smethwick always goes Laborite. This year it merely went Laborite a little harder than usual. That meant nothing. But it is significant that two rising young politicians like Oliver and Oswald have decided that their chance for a career lies among Laborites. A generation ago they would have turned Liberal. Now that the Liberal party has dwindled to a nothing, the verse of Gilbert & Sullivan must be re-written Today the politicians who matt in England are either "LaborITE or "Con-ser-va-TIVE...