Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...explaining what he meant by the standard of the job as being more important than the amount of money earned, Mr. Williams described his first job as a laborer. He was shovelling bricks, and had been one of the shovelling, gang for three weeks when the boss asked him if he would like to join the mill-rake gang...
...told that Le Cartel had reunited itself and now thought that it knew what it wanted as a unit. Apparently M. Herriot had worked fast and got the Socialists back into line. It remained to be seen at what cost. Unfortunately it shortly became apparent that the cost meant inserting the "capital levy" in the bill under the guise of a "mortgage-secured tax." For 24 consecutive hours M. Painlevé occupied himself with redrafting his measure, largely to suit M. Blum. Said the harassed Premier, "I yield. But only to Le Cartel...
Listeners well knew what such phrases meant. They meant that 284 mediums were fakes...
...cars and trucks. These sales are mostly made to dealers, who are stocking up for the winter and spring demand as well as filling current orders. October earnings rose in proportion. At an average of $130 profit per unit, the month's business must have meant something like a $12,500,000 profit to General Motors...
...paper was published in those years in the basement of the Union and printed by McCarter and Kneeland, whose long suffering patience is gratefully remembered. The candidates did most of the news gathering, and their period of servitude was too long and gruelling. It almost always meant probation for the successful. One of the three Assistant Managing Editors put the paper to bed, the Manager Editor supervised the job, the President wrote the editorials with the assistance of an editorial board, and the 'busy end gathered the ads.' In many respects the management of the CRIMSON has not different...