Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Dodds has shown that he meant no idle jest in his Opening Address when he deplored the "flask-toters and alcoholic" partisans who are mainly responsible for the exhibitions of ill-breeding which have become all too characteristic of intercollegiate football spectators...
...Dahlberg makes his board of sugar cane fibre. He found, as Inventor Mason did, that hard board could be made from materials other than wood. By giving his sugar cane a little more heat and pressure, he too got a dense, rigid board. But Masonite sued and won, which meant that if anyone wanted hard board they had to buy Presdwood...
...there are other things in store. The plot is meant to have a primitive compulsion about it, and in many places it has. Loretta Young is Ramona. When she learns that her mother's skin was red, duty joins inclination to make her marry Alessaudro, a very handsome Indian played by Don Ameche with none of the traditional "Ugh". In the course of a very persecuted life Alessandro gets shot to death. But just when divine justice is being reproachfully questioned by Ramona's homely protectress, along comes Filipe (Kent Taylor), Ramona's other lover, and promises...
...this meant anything, it meant to Frenchmen that the next time proletarians try to seize a factory by "folding arms" inside it and locking out the owner, they will be turned out themselves by French police. Whether or not Premier Blum would stick by this seemed more than doubtful, but with the "Blum franc" established last week he next took the most drastic step of his career. Ever since the World War nations have upped their tariff walls while they talked about downing them. Acting instead of talking this week, Leon Blum slashed French tariffs more deeply than has been...
...Paintings, prints, statues and friezes of rabbits fill the building. On the terrace last week there was a new balcony railing of wrought iron. It showed a frieze of galloping rabbits and it was news to the entire U. S. art world, for the installation of the rabbit rail meant that one of the best sculptors and ablest iron workers in the U. S. was back on his feet after eight years in hospitals in Germany, France...