Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other on their own campuses, merely for physical development and the fun of it without the immense thrill of appearing in a stadium thronged with 60,000 spectators. Someone has suggested that the athletic undergraduates may be forced to give up to study the time and talents that were meant for providing the populace with a great spectacle. Let us trust they will not use this new motive as a reason for continued hoping and praying for the return of prosperity so that college athletics may be again conducted on a fitting scale of luxury. Syracuse Daily Orange...
...public life have recently added another proposition to the list: namely, an inflation of currency. The issuance of currency which is not redeemable in gold, in a nation which is not redeemable in gold, in a nation which is on the gold standard, is what is ordinarily meant by inflation. This is what the advocates of the plan have in mind, believing that such a step would put more money into circulation and raise prices. To date, the suggestion has had no result other than a flurry in the price of the dollar on foreign markets...
...That was in 1920, Six years later he inaugurated a drive that was to bring in a million and a half. This he devoted to the establishment of ten teaching foundations (your "few teaching foundations"). The value of this latter move to secondary school education cannot be overestimated. It meant that for the first time in the history of American schools a secondary institution could afford to pay its instructors College Professor's salaries (each foundation brings eight thousand dollars a year to its recipient...
...President Arthur J. Burks, went two exciting market tips to woodpulp magazine writers last week. One was that the editors of Dell Publishing Co.'s three "pulps" need new material. The other: that Clayton Magazines are again paying on acceptance of stories (instead of on publication), which meant that their literary inventory is near bottom...
...Author. Although his father was Lord Carnock of Carnock his mother was a Rowan Hamilton of County Down. Perhaps because he has Irish blood in him Harold George Nicolson is not the dyed-in-the-wool traditionalist his heredity and training meant him to be. Besides, his wife is Victoria Sackville-West-who, though one of the Sackvilles of Knole Castle, is a novelist of parts, her influence therefore subversive of public-school tradition. Through the regular mill of Oxford, crammer's school and Foreign Office, Harold Nicolson took his obedient but observant way. He came to have more...