Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such gorgeous words meant, of course, that Japan's militarists were toying with the project of an onslaught upon Russia (which has been feverishly strengthening the fortifications of Vladivostok). But the situation in Japan itself was critical last week. With business hamstrung by the Chinese boycott of Japanese goods, with business leaders unable to judge precisely which way the militarists would jump, even public service corporations like the Tokyo Subway Railway Co. were in acute uncertainty and fear...
Amusement taxes such as this are intended to strike, not productive activities, but the excess income used for recreation. They are meant to increase the cost of luxuries while leaving money oarmarked for necessities inviolate. This tax, however, will pinch college activities which are now regarded as necessary to the health and welfare of the students. Football is the support of all other college sports, for it is the only one which draws crowds large enough to pay. If the new tax is passed by the Senate, the revenues from football will inevitably decrease. It would be unwise to make...
Last week it was found that Clarence Hastings had an intestinal obstruction which must be removed by operation. The operation required his removal from the life-saving respirator. That way lay danger of death by suffocation, unless the operation was performed expeditiously. No operation meant collapse and death...
...Respighi meant his Maria Egiziaca to be mounted simply so as to suggest the old mystery plays. Mary of Egypt (German Charlotte Boerner) sang capably last week but, for the rest, the Philharmonic production was amateurish to a degree that Toscanini would never have tolerated. In his own miraculous fashion Toscanini might even have made the drab, derivative music take on color, sound significant...
...granting religious liberty save to native Christians who wished to adopt non-Christian faiths. But Pan (Mr.) Raczynski appealed his case to the Supreme Administrative Tribunal at Warsaw, which three weeks ago reversed the previous decisions. Let the Rabbinate admit Pan Raczynski. The Tsarist ukase, said the Tribunal, meant "Greek Orthodox" when it said "Christian." Hence any Roman Catholic, Protestant, Buddhist or whatnot might become a Jew if he wished...