Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sweet Moon Song (that wasn't meant...
...William Tatem Tilden II: a "farewell" tennis match in Manhattan against German Hans Nusslein, No. 2 man of the Tilden troupe: 6-3, 6-2. By "farewell," long, lean Tilden, theatrical as ever, meant it was his last match in Manhattan-at least until after another tour of the U. S. and a tour of Europe, starting June...
While the Premier was drafting a Treasury decree rumors began to fly. New Zealanders rushed to buy English pounds, found that their New Zealand pounds were already quoted at 9% below English. When the Forbes decree was published it officially pushed this discount to 25%, meant that 1¾ Dominion pounds would thereafter be required to buy one English pound...
...client spoke in the interest of Rumania and of our King himself," argued counsel for the defense. "Is it not significant that after his speech he was not arrested but was invited to the Royal Palace? He there repeated to King Carol his well meant admonitions, now made the basis of a charge of lese majeste...
...Louis Rebuzzini sullenly, Dr. Wiener discoursed about blood types O. A. B & AB and certain substances called agglutinogens M & N, reasoned that if this-blood man fertilized that-blood woman, their offspring must have this-or-that blood and could not have such-or-such blood. All this meant that the Landsteiner blood groups can show only that a man is not a child's father. But not in every case can blood matching prove innocence. For example, two putative fathers may belong to the same blood group. Nonetheless, the blood groups suffice to clear...