Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over Turkey one night last week as Islam downed its evening meal. The peasants in the little villages finished their last prostrations toward Mecca, and went out for a breath of the sharp night. Suddenly someone bit a piece out of the moon. The peasants knew instantly what that meant...
...Moscow's district locals of the Young Communists. Just as Grandfather Frost began handing out presents to Red moppets, a Red youth interrupted the festivities by shouting, "Stop! Comrades, you are making a terrible ideological mistake. Trees in the Communist society are meant for such serious use as the building of homes for the proletariat. Comrades, I order you to go home! Otherwise the whole meaning of our Revolution must sink into a morass of opportunism. Comrades! And you 'Grandfather Frost,' if you do not go home I shall denounce you to the Party Secretary...
...chaff they were. At an impressionable age she met and married a zealous young preacher, for the bad reason that they both felt called to be missionaries. Hand in hand they went through the wood-to China. Here Carie began to wake up, when she saw what Christianity meant to Chinese converts. When Chinese women sang hymns, "everyone sang as quickly and as loudly as she could. . . . No one sang the tune, but only his own. . . . The old lady next to her rocked back " forth squeaking in a high falsetto, gabbling at a terrific speed, her long fingernail following...
When the national socialists came to power, they were supported by many opposing elements in Germany, and Mrs. Lewis believes that this was the cause of the ambiguous aims of the government. For some, national socialism stood as the anti-semitic cause, for some it meant pomp and splendour, for some the cause of nationalism and rearmament...
This criticism is not meant to show that the book is valueless. On the contrary, anything written by such as observer should be considered seriously, especially when comparisons are made with the conditions in the Tsarist regime under which she also lived. Her intimate knowledge with her subject and the skillful way in which the facts are set forth demand recognition but it should be remembered that the author is used to a different mode of living and is somewhat too old to adapt her ways to that of a new system. She undoubtedly presents the facts faithfully. Our only...