Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enactment his bill for refinancing agricultural mortgages. His land-leasing -domestic - allotment-cotton pool measure now in the Senate's hands is designed to raise commodity prices and thus put cash into the farm industry from the bottom by direct subsidies (see p. 18). His mortgage bill is meant to ease the debt load pressing down on the farm from the top. The two pieces of legislation complemented each other in purpose, would probably be fused into one by Congress...
When the bombs reached New York, dress, millinery, fur and cloak & suit manufacturers were in despair. Chemists assured them that the valerianate had to dissipate itself naturally, that there was no known way of neutralizing or destroying its odor. That meant they had to wait some six months before their stinking factories or showrooms became habitable again. Worst of all, even after leaving garments the smell came back on damp days...
Chief Russell was glad to report that when Turkey's Dictator Kemal Pasha announced last December that he was joining the world fight on illicit opium, Kemal meant what he said. Three huge Turkish opium factories have been closed. By the Ghazi's orders poppy cultivation has been "limited to the actual needs of medicine and science...
...Robert Browning's most obscure poem, Sordello, it was said that only one person understood it-the author-and that later even he forgot what it all meant. Whether or not the Cantos have a "meaning," Author Pound seems to realize that his readers may have the same difficulty...
...This meant that for several years the Faculty received no salaries, despite repeated attempts to regain from Hancock the stocks, bonds, and accounts which had been placed in his custody when he assumed office. Finally, in April, 1775, Hancock announced his intention of settling his accounts, and for months after that the books and papers remained in the Hancock mansion in Boston...