Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first to respond as the alphabetical roll was called was the Australian delegate who shouted a cheery "Aye!" It was explained to the French tellers who understood only English English that "aye" meant "yes." Forthwith the voting proceeded with naught heard but "yes" or "oui" At the 48th affirmative President Nintchitch announced that Germany had been unanimously elected to membership in the League of Nations and to a permanent seat on the League Council...
...never have secured passage for the bill extending the hours of mine labor from seven to eight (TIME, July 12) had they known that the owners would thereupon refuse to discuss a national wage settlement. The Government never thought for a moment that opening the door* for district settlements meant shutting it in the face of a national settlement. We wish both doors to be open and settlements to be achieved through both...
...Jazzists make a great point of their rhythmic innovations and the freedom of their rhythms. If they had any idea of what rhythm meant, they would know that in comparison with the rhythms of any of the great composers from the 16th Century onwards their own rhythms are merely as the sing-song of a nursery rhyme to the changing subtleties of a page of Shakespeare...
Sirs: Let me say, by the way, that I think TIME resembles the little busy bee and improves every shining hour-not merely as Dr. Watts meant it, but by constant improvement in matter and handling...
...pile of straw. At five on the Tuesday I woke and returned to work. I chafed with the terrible rage of the powerless. The padrone made me mad. The third day he said to me: 'You are too well dressed! . . .' That phrase was meant to convey an insinuation. I should have liked to rebel and to crack the skull of this upstart who was accusing me of laziness while my limbs were giving beneath the weight of the stones-I wanted to shout out in his face: 'You coward, you coward!' And then...