Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When flabbergasted U. S. correspondents asked Colonel Roehm what he meant by his reference to the military training of the "entire youth" of the U. S. he snapped, "I have not been to America...
...Smart David Stern was mistaken if he meant to imply that other Manhattan newspapers had offered $250,000 to kill the Post. What they did, after Publisher Martin decided to kill his own newspaper, was to pool $150,000 for the Post's name and Associated Press membership, provided that Publisher Martin give his 700 newsmen and pressmen two weeks salary to keep them in funds over the holidays...
...real opinion of his colleagues. Kitchener he kindly calls "one of the unsolved mysteries of the war." After Neuve Chapelle, he says, Kitchener groaned not over the casualties but the wasted shells. Of Balfour he says: "[The Admiralty] was an office that called for unceasing attention to detail. It meant long hours, early and late. Mr. Balfour was obviously unsuitable for such a post...
...student who enjoys a phonograph record by Kreisler played twice as fast as it was ever meant to be played will enjoy Fine Arts 1d immensely. The only defect in the course is the tremendous speed at which it is given. One half year is all the time allotted to dashing through early Christian art to Medieval art through it to Renaissance art, through Renaissance art to modern art, and finally landing somewhat winded in the lap of a post-Impressionist. Professor Edgell strives nobly to make up for the shortness of the time by grinding out words and witty...
When Baron von Tippleskirch was questioned concerning the current rumor that big English bankers and the House of Morgan in this country had financed the Hitler Revolution, he answered, "I think is is just a rumor like other rumors and without any foundation. Besides, had foreign bankers meant to keep German workers subjugated by financing the Hitler Revolution, this would indeed betray an extremely poor judgment. Hitler's aim in by no means to subjugate the German workman, but to lift him to his proper-position within the larger community of the German people. Hitler feels himself personally much nearer...