Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This, from the Noble Earl, was well meant. As the glare of prying publicity increases, directors of munitions trusts are becoming cagier and Sir Herbert soon revealed that he is making progress. At the stockholders' meeting last year a sniping coupon-cutter produced German magazines carrying Vickers advertisements, loudly drew the only possible inference. Last week there seemed to be no more such advertisements and when the Chairman was questioned about German sales he replied as though shocked...
What he probably meant was "drift," by which is meant the gyroscopic precessive motion of the projectile to the right of the plane of the initial trajectory. This drift to the right increases with the range, and obeys definite scientific laws...
...last week Stanley Forman Reed was sworn in as Solicitor General of the U. S. Taking that oath cost him $208 a month because he gave up a $12.500 job as general counsel of RFC to take the $10,000 Solicitorship General. But public advancement meant more than money to Mr. Reed, who is the husband of the Registrar General of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and in his own right a country squire and cattle breeder at home in Maysville, Ky. First called to Washington by President Hoover as counsel to the late Farm Board at $25.000 salary...
...group of hardy passengers on a liner of the swinging lamp era trying to forget their interior troubles. Artist Bacon was an excellent draughtsman with an instinctive sense of composition but beyond that his artistic mind did not rise. Yet in the ingenuous 1870's his name meant much in the art world. Wounded in the Civil War, he went to Paris to recuperate and study art, spending most of his life thereafter in Europe. A pupil of the painstaking Jean Leon Gerome, Alexandre Cabanel and Edouard Frere, he became one of the most persistent of salon exhibitors. Between...
...lotteries of the Irish Hospital Sweepstakes Committee. Last week while the race was being run, hundreds of optimistic individuals who had bought sweepstakes tickets sat glued to their radios in the U. S. If the Lord Mayor's prediction, of which they were entirely unaware, came true, it meant $143,000 to a Bronx housewife, a Philadelphia bartender who had signed his ticket "Five Glasses," the wife of a hotel proprietor of Olney, Ill., a Toronto x-ray technician and one Ann Goldberg of Philadelphia, as well as smaller prizes for hundreds of others whose names', addresses...