Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reader misunderstand TIME'S reference to "routine singers," by which was meant members of the ensemble, who are paid $85 a week minimum. Leading performers in San Carlo receive $250 to $500 a week, while guest stars have been paid as high as $1,200 a performance (Maria Jeritza...
Alice, who was never quite sure what the Hatter meant or would say next, but who always tried to be polite answered quietly...
...South, Mussolini's Somaliland army, creeping north under command of Italy's ablest colonial fighter, lean General Graziani, was fighting harder and making more progress. Roads meant nothing in this rolling desert country where the advance was from water hole to water hole. Each hole was held by a little group of fanatical natives ready to charge and die at the first bang of a gun. It was slow and bloody business. General Graziani finally called out his bombing planes. Soon it was reported that the Italians were using a new, yellowish gas on the terrified Ethiopians...
...this meant anything, it meant that the President was on the fence and to get him off became the surprising ambition last week of Mr. Hull's predecessor, Republican onetime Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson. Lawyer Stimson's well-meant "Stimson Doctrine," which persuaded virtually all nations not to recognize Japan's puppet state of Manchukuo (TIME, March 7, 1932), led the Great Powers down the deadest dead-end street of latter day diplomacy and in that street they are still stalled. Last week ingenious Statesman Stimson, in an open letter to the Press, clarioned...
...identical with those of the average man. Arguments such as "War is the Supreme Court of Appeal" and "War is the necessary outcome of Darwin's theory" are erroneous and dangerous, in view of the realities of modern warfare. They camouflage a primitive craving for power and are meant to stimulate the preparedness for war among the speaker's countrymen...