Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...affect only future property holdings. Nevertheless the State Department has continued to write notes bordering on the insulting to our neighbor beyond the Rio Grande. Apparently then, the State Department is acting in the interests of further economic penetration and expansion by American interests, and this is what is meant by threatened destruction of American business...
Triumph. M. Poincaré won cloture by the smashing vote of 365 to 207. That meant that the budget would go through. The Chamber which last spring cut down Cabinet after Cabinet in an orgy of political double crossing has at last come definitely to its senses. The Sacred Union Cabinet of M. Poincaré (TIME, Aug. 9) has achieved what was possible to no single faction. A period of uneventful balloting upon the hundreds of clauses in the budget loomed. As an urgent prelude there were introduced before the Chamber last week War Minister Painlevé's "economy...
...chemin-de-fer and baccarat for stakes of thousands of dollars. Mr. Schwab has never smoked. He has drunk sparingly. He has been a devoted husband. Yet he has always liked a pleasant game of cards. If he did gamble a bit at Monte Carlo, the stakes meant little to him and he had earned relaxation...
...discouraged Harvard supporters, which blew on its fingers and looked longingly up the track toward Boston. The Crimson had failed to flash in triumph, and here was a group who had suffered thereby, and who had to attend Monday morning classes in the Yard. But to do this meant something that was very much missing from the faithful at that moment...
...large part, the present day controversy between Fundamentalists and Modernists is just this question of the spirit in which the Scriptures were written. Were they written purporting to set forth exact truth in all their details and meant to be accepted as such, or were there parts conceived in the spirit of figures of speech and designed to be taken in the same spirit? If one accepts the first view must he deny science; if one accepts the second, must he deny the Bible...