Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus far the coming of fall has meant only a mild yet comfortable situation of uncertainty. Business prospects appear sound and healthy, but sufficiently stabilized to obviate much speculative enthusiasm. The real difficulty, so far as domestic business is concerned, is to find an important weak spot. Even Congress-long the scapegoat of business ills-is now persuaded of the political value of a constructive rather than a destructive attitude toward economic questions. If anything, tax reductions during the coming year should make prospective legislation attractive to business...
...PENCILED FROWN?James Gray?Scribner's ($2.00)?It was penciled on the self-conscious countenance of Timothy Wynkoop, hardly weaned from college and already dramatic critic of The Indian City (Ia.) Leader. It was meant to convey the wearer's enormous intelligence, his artistic nature, his critical acumen. It often appeared when Timothy was planning his "major" novels and was always there when he sat, scornfully dignified, at visiting shows. Gradually it was erased by employers, women and the flopping of Timothy's first play. When the last line disappeared and Timothy became a humble cub reporter, his best...
...ship was in trouble. Commander John Rogers on the seaplane had reported to Naval listeners that headwinds had forced him to open his throttles in order to keep his headway?that his petrol tanks were consequently emptying too fast. This message of distress was regarded as distinctly alarming. It meant that the Frenchmen would retain for a while longer the non-stop flight record. Why, it might actually means that the Rogers and his men were in danger...
...Weehawken, N. J., weeping with the fierce, cloudly bitterness of one deranged by shock. He spoke gently to her. She did not know where she was going. She did not know where she had come from. That was why she was crying. Ho, but the officer knew what this meant! It was some disease they had when they talked like that; he had read about it in the papers many's the time; magnesia was the name of it, or rhodesia, or one of them. He took her to the North Hudson hospital. The doctor asked her a simple question...
...Chicago gland expert. Last week this Dr. Lespinasse, protesting that he had received "entirely too much publicity" from his services to Mr. McCormick, issued nevertheless some statements. The price of parts, he said, was coming down. When asked what parts he referred to, he made it clear that he meant the parts of that curious taxicab of the soul, the human body. He foresaw the day, he intimated, when parts would be obtainable at standard prices from agencies in most large towns and service stations along the highways. In the minds of his listeners arose the vision of hilarious advertisements...