Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...north-by-west for Point Barrow, northernmost settlement on this continent, where her commander, Captain George Hubert Wilkins, wished to deposit supplies before asking her to carry him over the Arctic seas. About noon, Fairbanks reported a radio from Captain Wilkins saying he had sighted Point Barrow. That meant that the Alaskan was soaring over the great triangular tundra, about the size of Texas, north of the Endicott Mountains. This report was later denied by Major Lanphier, Wilkins' second-in-command, and not for three days was the Alaskan's safe landing at its destination definitely known...
...tenor of the play, the advance manager had conceived the idea of a Harvard night, and had sent out invitations to Harvard men to occupy the boxes on both sides of the stage. This hospitality on the part of the manager was, according to the Boston Herald, "well meant but positively disastrous." Harvard students were in no mood to give the play a favorable reception. They had heard altogether too much about the seriousness with which its exaggerated representations of many of the worst and most ridiculous sides of college life had been taken as an accurate portrayal of Harvard...
...been crowned with success, four sessions of Sunday school represent the sum of her incursion into the subtleties of dogma. And like her Brooklyn prototype her educational progress has been but mediocre. But then, as Carlyle once remarked in a burst of etymological exaltation, the word "vates" once meant both "prophet" and "poet", and the ways of each are equally inscrutable to the average...
...leave the needle in the child's brain meant eventual death, most probably a horrible death in convulsions. To pull the needle out probably would kill the child. Yet there was the slightest of chances that it would survive the operation. Because it was only five months old, perhaps the brain of its own accord would repair the damage the needle had already done. Perhaps the child would live and grow up normally. But the doctor would not operate without the parents' consent. They consented...
...toasted"), Egyptian Straights, Herbert Tareyton, Johnny Walker, Lord Salisbury, Melachrino, Naturals, Omar, Pall Mall, Sweet Caporal ("Ask Dad, he knows"), Bull Durham, Tuxedo, Serene, Old English Curve Cut, and many another. Their sales?billions of cigarets and tobacco packages?netted the company $22,238,919 last year. This meant, after preferred dividends were paid, $9.77 a share (par $50) on the $97,639,600 of common and common B stocks outstanding. In 1924 the net income was $20,784,869 or $9.02 for similar shares...