Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...than anything else. The man Mustafa used to talk about Turkey to the girl Latife in the shade of her father's house. He told her of all he hoped to accomplish for his native land and of the prejudices, born of ignorance, bred of superstition. that he meant to extirpate. The girl listened enthralled...
Last winter the students of Knox College (Galesburg, Ill.) placarded their campus: "We want Meiklejohn." They meant Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn, revolutionary deposed President of Amherst College. They wanted Dr. Meiklejohn for President of Knox to succeed Dr. James L. McConaughy who last January shifted to the chair of Wesleyan University (TIME, Dec. 29). They thought Dr. Meiklejohn and his liberalism were "indispensable." But Dr. Meiklejohn was planning an "independent" university of his own (TIME, Sept. 15) and the students' placards faded, wilted...
...underlings and had no intention of coming to an agreement, and charging that Mr. Warriner and W. J. Richards (President of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Corporation), who had been two of the chief negotiators in: previous years, were holding back. He said that the conference so far meant nothing because of their absence and in effect threatened to break off negotiations unless the operators would send their real champions into the fray...
Since President Wilson was in Europe, however, many anfractuosities have been discovered in the straight road which men mapped out for the World at Paris in 1919. One of them was the refusal of the U. S. to ratify the Treaty of Versailles, which meant that President Wilson's promise to Belgium was nullified. And the thought of many Belgians was expressed recently by Paul Hymans, Foreign Minister at the Versailles Conference, who asked in a session of Parliament at Brussels: "Who could have imagined in 1919 that the signature of President Wilson would today be disowned...
...collectors, connoisseurs in England. They had come to Christie's auction rooms to bid for the odds and ends that John Singer Sargent left around his studio when he died (TIME, Apr. 27). The auctioneer turned suavely to the gentlemen on the forms, nodding at a raised finger that meant 200 guineas, catching a wink that raised the bid by several hundred...