Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nottingham and Derby coal miners broke suddenly with the Miners' Federation, accepted an offer from the Bolsover Colliery Co. to resume work at their former wages, agreed to labor 7½ hours a day. Though capitulation by 17,000 miners out of a striking 1,000,000 meant nothing, an impetus to separate and regional agreements was thus given by example. Tory mine owners, prematurely exultant, touted rumors that the strike was cracking...
...That meant a reduction in the miners' wages, and the miners struck...
...last week, accused of accepting a $40 bribe to ignore town speakeasies. †The cost of U. S. government, federal, state and local, was $10,975,000,000 last year (N. Y. Trust Co.'s The Index, July, 1926). In 1924 it was $10,252,000,000, which meant 16% of the income of all the people, or $91.47 for each one, or $400 for each family [American Exchange-Pacific National Bank (Manhattan) August monthly letter...
Showing documentary evidence in the Outlook, Dr. Barton indicated that the Cardinal had meant no harm, that he had merely confused two Abrahams of the Lincoln clan, two first cousins...
...ball flew as if drawn on an invisible wire, slid four yards past the hole. Turnesa, watching, brushed his hand across his forehead. So it was all no use, his own fight over the harsh Scioto course, with its clods like stones, no use, the 294 that meant riches, pleasure, fame. Jones had two to win. His first putt missed. Turnesa was frozen now. If someone yelled, if a lightning bolt fell, if a caddy dropped a bag, Jones might. . . . But already the second putt had clinked into the cup. Jones's score...