Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...return of aspirations for Hanover. 1933-34 is a year of planned recovery for Dartmouth. Recovery not only from the depths of athletic slump, but better still from the depths of listlessness and cynicism which had begun to surround the college life. At the same time it is not meant to be something like the old and trite "Do or Die for Harvard" collegiana. There are hopes it will reach deeper...
...after wading through dreary pages on the National Recovery Act. But for the present, the prospect of a large overproduction of general and special Hueyana brings up graver problems of government control than does a wheat surplus. One wonders who pays for the rain of Huey pamphlets which is meant to soak the rich...
...advertising's value. Five hundred post-graduate students under general direction of Northwestern University's Professor Samuel Nowell Stevens questioned 10,000 U. S. housewives. Uniformly, from Portland, Ore. and Los Angeles to Miami and Boston, women were impressed and excited by advertising. The advertising message meant most to the women. The dress-up of type, illustration, color and paper, meant less. Nor did abstract ideas and symbols have much influence. The women reacted most effectively to sincerity and dramatic appeal, particularly when they could use the advertised goods in their regular, daily activities...
Italy, France, Britain might be willing that such a thing should occur, but they certainly did not want it blurted out in this rude manner, for it meant the practical revision of one of the sacrosanct War treaties, and if Austria could win revision on a small point, here was an opening wedge for Germany! Loudly they insisted that they were not permitting compulsory service, that the new volunteers were to be admitted only for as long as the "special conditions" lasted. Chastened General Vaugoin subsided, knowing that in three years Austria will have...
...Soviet Government was doing everything in its power last week to show that it meant no harm to any other nation. In Rome a non-aggression pact with Italy was signed. A guest in the still magnificent English Gothic Morosov Palace (now the Foreign Office guest residence) and there plied with champagne and caviar blini was bulky, friendly Edouard Herriot of France. Holding no government post, Citizen Herriot smiled a great deal and said nothing. All Moscow was convinced that new Franco- Russian trade agreements were brewing, felt that the old problem of the 20 billion...