Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dictator, normally harsh, direct and plain, deliberately engaged with President Litvinoff in an exchange of views on the Ethiopian issue so vague, involved and fuzzy that Geneva minions could not figure out whether Il Duce meant that Italians would appear in the Council this week...
...Paris in 1929 Mrs. Elizabeth Drexel Lehr heard that her husband was dead. To the daughter of Philadelphia Banker Joseph William Drexel, that event meant that the "tragic farce" of a 28-year marriage had ended, that she was now free to tell her story. A bitter, disillusioned book, "King Lehr" is memorable for the lurid light it throws on U. S. Society of the Gilded Age, may confidently be opened as one of the most startling and scandalously intimate records of life among the wealthy yet written by one of them...
What you undoubtedly meant is: To the conference members, who wearing no such beards or yarmulki. . . ." Yarmulki is the Slavic for skullcap; hence your sentence conveys no sense as it stands in the original...
...Truslow, after 40 years of orthopedic surgery, accomplishes his repairs by altering bones, muscles, tendons. He cited a dozen cases to show what he meant. One of them concerned a Miss T. S. who suffered a severe attack of infantile paralysis when she was 5. When Dr. Truslow saw her eight years later, "she walked with two crutches, right leg decidedly knock-kneed and with a flexion deformity, 20° outward rotation of leg, right foot in equinovarus; moderate scoliosis...
...Under the impression that the Shah was referring to the Persian nightingale, Mme Savage naturally felt flattered. Later she heard a braying donkey called a "bulbul," learned that Persians also applied the term to any noisy animal. Says she today: "I still don't know what the Shah meant...