Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drafted that sentence. The Prime Minister drafted it. The Prime Minister, as a matter of fact, is very fond of high-sounding words and I am sure he was very well pleased with himself when he got that sonorous word 'orientation' into his statement. Orientation originally meant a moving toward the East, and I suggest the real meaning of the phrase was the necessity of dealing with Japanese commercial competition...
...Clausen did not tell the Northern Baptists about the "new tool" but he explained later to newsmen that he meant television-possible in ten years. Then, he thinks, half a dozen preachers will serve the whole world. Churches will so time their services that they can tune in on studio sermons. This will not throw little, unimportant preachers out of jobs. They will become executives, helping their parishioners to understand and live by the televised messages...
...police official told them they were "not very desirable." Nevertheless, Dollfuss permitted them to speak non-politically to 30,000 Austrian Nazis at a celebration of the 250th anniversary of the delivery of Vienna from the Turks.* The audience soon gathered that whenever Propagandist Frank said "Turks'" he meant Chancellor Dollfuss and the Jews, knew that by "one country and one people" he meant a Germany-Austria combine. Next day Austrians were primed with a counter-motto, "Austria forever," as the descendant and namesake of the man who delivered Vienna, Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg...
...public had never heard of him and even among bankers and industrialists his name meant little when, suddenly in 1928, Sosthenes Behn became master of Mackay-Postal telegraph system. When editors cried for a picture of the new successor to the late romantic silver-mining telegraph tycoon John William Mackay, all they could get was a fusty photograph of a man with a beard. This they printed only to be told that Sosthenes Behn had removed his beard some years before. But soon the public learned a lot about Sosthenes Behn...
Last winter when Death took John Frederick Wolle, musical folk felt as though the passing of a great conductor meant the passing of a great institution. John Frederick Wolle founded the Bach Festivals in Bethlehem, Pa., kept them as potently alive as the steel industry which grew to spread its commercial smoke over practically everything else in Bethlehem. Farmers and later factory workers came to share "Mr. Fred's'' love for the music of Bach, for the great B Minor Mass whose choruses they learned to sing like professionals...