Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they worked very hard," replied the bone-dry man. His secretary later admitted paying $200 to Mrs. Azuba Jones, late of the W. C. T. U. for "dissemination of information," a phrase that rolled somewhat acidly off Senator Reed's tongue when he learned it meant speechmaking...
Interviewed, Empire Builder James announced that his purchase was "purely personal." He meant by this that in making it he did not look upon himself as representing the many other companies in which he owns controlling interest...
...written to Herr Von Loebell, was the publication of a letter who was a minister of state to Kaiser Wilhelm II and also political campaign manager for General Hindenburg. The President was in Schorfheide when the letter was given out. It was conjectured that the President might not have meant it for publication...
Again will the latter gentleman kindly inform me who has been and who is advocating that "revered word is meant those narrow, dogmatic views which condemn those who do not conform, which are founded on and thrive on superstition fear and ignorance, and the devotees of which feel it their duty to show their piety by publicly kow-towing at the behest of some dervish who prates, the while about glory, salvation...
...lack of religious feeling in Harvard has reached such a point and is so well known that something must be done about it." This statement of our Defender of the Faith is wrong or right according to the meaning of the term religion. If by that revered word is meant those narrow, dogmatic views which condemn those who do not conform, which are founded on and thrive on superstition, fear and ignorance, and the devotees of which feel it their duty to show their piety by publicly kow-towing at the behest of some dervish who prates the while about...