Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remains, in a notable slump. Last week a Bradstreet report based on building permits in 187 U. S. cities summed up this slump in the form of a concise figure. That figure was 23.4%. It represented the decrease in building for August 1929, compared to August 1928. It meant, roughly speaking, that for every four structures built during August 1928 only three were being built during August 1929-a startling shrinkage in so basic an industry. Greatest decline, however (45%) was in New York; decrease outside the metropolis stood...
...hundred years ago in England, Roman Catholics could not be seated in Parliament without taking oaths that meant the renunciation of their faith. Then Irish Catholics of County Clare elected Daniel O'Connell to Parliament, threatened to elect him repeatedly until seated. Fearing civil war an unwilling Parliament and unwilling King George IV passed the Emancipation Bill, giving Catholics equal political rights with Protestants...
President Eliot believed that, by the end of the five-year period for which the modest but adequate sum had been raised, the school would have so clearly demonstrated its usefulness that its future permanent support would be ensured. When asked if he meant to apply both quantitative and qualitative tests to such a measure of success, he answered firmly: "Both." I demurred, insisting that at least fifteen years, rather than five years, would be required to settle the foundations of such an enterprise, and that after the first experimental period much larger financial support would be required. Making light...
...science of management: here is the real center of business. This is the thing which business men of the older fashion meant when they said executives could not be trained outside of business. Now they are realizing how little business itself knows of this delicate and difficult matter. It applies not only to the factory but to all activities of business; it deals not merely with machines and methods, but with all the ordered work of human beings. It has still to develop its wider applications; it has yet to make of the factory nomerely a mechanizing evil necessary...
...Slogan originally meant a clan...