Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...read TIME to my grandchildren. TIME, Oct. 12, Page 6, Column 3, reads : "Exclaimed M. Caillaux with weary irony." Of course, I don't know, but is not the satire? pointing Is out not of irony the saying foibles one of thing - people meaning the opposite? He meant exactly what he said. You place yourself with those lower classes who enjoy using sarcasm" when they mean "irony...
...what has led to exploration of the short-wave field. The Hammond system promises to multiply the multiple possibilities of this field, by 8 at least, probably by a higher number. It means for radio what the discovery that many simultaneous messages could be sent over one wire, meant for telegraphy and telephony...
...Blind Pigger." "When he handed it to the narrow-minded gang I bet you a fin he meant the damn Prohibitionists. I wonder if he takes a drink once in a while...
...Mechanic Bennett's heroism in climbing out on a wing to prevent a cold-clogged oil tank from bursting, the joint feat of changing three 900-lb. Liberty motors with improvised equipment, and the readiness of all the men to fly over Ellesmere Land "where a forced landing meant 'curtains' [i. e. dropped curtains-Death]." Pilot Earl Reber of the NA-3, despite an attack of stomach ulcers that kept him on a milk diet for weeks, was credited with the most miles flown. Reber described the foggy flying weather as "dirtiest ever...
...church courts. He sought to have the House of Bishops convene a final court of appeal to which to carry his case. The Bishops have before declined to convene this court which is optionally provided for in the constitution of the Church. In this case it would have meant three years delay, to the next triennial convention before the machinery of the court could be approved. The Bishops declined to call the court. They allowed Bishop Brown to plead his case-to argue for half an hour that he had not had a fair trial, but his lawyer...