Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since reserve planes are usually in a 3-to-1 ratio to first-line planes, this meant a 1937 fleet of about 4,500. Cost: ?30,000,000 ($147,300,000). To man the planes the R. A. F. needs 2,500 more pilots, as well as 20,000 more mechanics, riggers, wireless operators...
...failing from a lifetime of excessive reading. The Conservatives might not miss MacDonald's eyes but they would certainly miss his much-publicized heart. British dopesters were busy last week figuring that, if MacDonald resigned, he would take with him the weak men in the National Cabinet. This meant two in particular: Sir John Simon whose Olympian coldness in human contacts had not served Britain well in foreign affairs; and the Marquess of Londonderry, Air Minister, who should have known that Germany was building an air fleet...
...Walter Pater the expression meant, in a famed paragraph in his Renaissance, that: ''Hers is the head upon which all 'the ends of the world are come,' and the eyelids are a little weary. It is a beauty wrought out from within upon the flesh, the deposit, little cell by cell, of strange thoughts and fantastic reveries and exquisite passions. Set it for a moment beside one of those white Greek goddesses or beautiful women of antiquity, and how would they be troubled by this beauty, into which the soul with all its maladies has passed...
...appalling moment last week, William Lawson Little Jr. stood on the golf course at St. Anne's-on-the-Sea and watched his opponent in the final of the British Amateur Championship putt on the last green. If the ball went into the cup, it meant that their match was all even. If it stayed out, it meant that Little had done what only one golfer, Harold Hilton in 1900 and 1901, had done in this century: won the British Amateur two years in a row. In those protracted seconds while the ball was rolling smoothly toward...
Boston's stout-hearted old William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, who did not bother to mention Father Coughlin by name, is the radio priest's highest-placed Catholic critic. So the Massachusetts Catholic Order of Foresters was well aware what the "dean of the U.S. hierarchy" meant when he addressed their meeting: "There are a million ways in which any citizen of America can voice his views, but it ought to be done with self-respecting honesty and, above all, the proper respect due to superiors. . . . Oftentimes the faith of our good people is tested by those...