Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hostility to a kind of modified and active neutrality must have a very important effect on any assessment of the case. The switch was slight. As the outbursts of Gill's counsel yesterday indicate, it has not placed the whole investigation beyond all suspicion of unfairness. But it has meant this: that the Press, at last a trifle uncertain about the outcome of the affair and therefore about the consequences of its Roman holiday, has resolved to give the Superintendent at least the semblance of justice. And, what is a great deal more, it has given Gill a chance...
...meant Hostess Mary Carter who was one of the eight killed...
...night one of them heard a dull boom from below. He knew what that meant. Someone had banked the furnace fire too heavily and a puff of exploding coal gas had blown open the door. Sleepily he stumbled down cellar, slammed the door shut, went back to bed. He did not notice that a part of the chimney pipe had also been blown...
Secretary Wallace of the Department of Agriculture in his pamphlet "America Must Choose" insisted that economic nationalism meant drastic control of all business and even perhaps "control of all agencies of public opinion" in order to preserve national unity, but that economic internationalism, while not altogether pleasant and still subject to some new types of social control, was nevertheless less painful. Mr. Wallace said he leaned toward the international solution...
Last October Author John McConaughy dropped dead on a Manhattan street, leaving behind him, as all men must, unfinished business. But this particular work in progress was far enough along to be given a posthumous issue. Whether or not Author McConaughy meant to answer his own rhetorical question, his indignant replies have gone far enough to show that there is more than one way of looking at U. S. history. Subtitle of Who Rules America? is A Century of Invisible Government. McConaughy's thesis: the real rulers of the U. S. from the beginning have been malefactors of great...