Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three groups: 1) The regular Republicans, supposedly in favor of plenty of tariff of all kinds. 2) The group of Midwestern, more or less insurgent Republicans, who want only a tariff on agriculture. 3) The Democrats, supposedly in favor of very little tariff of any kind. But the lineup meant little. There are regular Republicans only half-hearted about many tariff items. And all good Democrats want some tariff or other for their people at home. The Insurgents, led by Idaho's Borah, and the Democrats, were agreed that they wanted tax reports made available - as am munition...
...Schutzbund and talked long, hard, pointedly to them. So effective were these little conferences that last week blustering Dr. Pfrimer, loudest of the Heimwehr leaders, explained that when he had boasted in previous speeches of a "triumphant march on Vienna with rifles in hand" what he had really meant was merely "a spiritual march of Heimwehr ideals...
Marcia Gunther looked over her left shoulder at the young May moon and so her troubles began. Her husband drowned himself because he thought she meant it when she said she was eloping with another man. Her mother-in-law, a certain doctor friend, and the rest of the town condemned her for infidelity both marital, of which they presumed her guilty in fact, and religious, for they knew her father hated God. After the mother-in-law dies, Marcia wins over the doctor and the town for the happy ending, by sheer force of youth, love, indifference. A satisfying...
...phrase "where competition is so keen" meant a great deal more to oil men than it did to the general public. All this year they have been watching New York and a large part of the East undergo a seachange. Across the landscape has been appearing a horde of mollusk shells, artistically represented in red and yellow, with the letters SHELL prominently inscribed upon them. Oil men know that the letters stand for Royal Dutch Shell, great Anglo-Dutch rival of Standard Oil, and for its U. S. subsidiaries-Shell Union and Shell Eastern Petroleum...
Clearly the existence of such a state of mind meant that last week "The City" was putting heavy pressure on the Labor Cabinet of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, and through him on Chancellor Snowden. As Mr. Lamont left London to sail on the Olympic for Manhattan, his cheerful air kindled confidence among businessmen that "The City" would yet put things right...