Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...silence. Next day he was not in the least surprised when he received from Secretary Stimson a public letter, addressed to him but directed at Japan. Secretary Stimson undertook at legal length to answer Senator Borah's question as to whether Japan's hostilities against China meant that the Nine-Power Treaty had become "inapplicable or ineffective." He went back to the Washington Conference of 1921-22 to recall that Belgium, Britain, France. Italy. Japan, The Netherlands, Portugal and the U. S. then and there had joined with China in this pact to respect Chinese sovereignty and integrity...
...announced Sir John's peace proposal meant little to the Chinese and Japanese in the line. Twice in 24 hours Chinese and Japanese troops swept back and forth across Chapei's Paitse Bridge. Japan threatened to carry bombing operations 50 miles inland if further Chinese reinforcements arrived. This would mean bombing the richest paddy fields in China, between Shanghai and Nanking. Shanghai's defender, pale scholarly General Tsai Ting-kai risked it. Thirty-nine years old, he boasts that this is his 170th military campaign...
...Ladies of the Big House" is meant as a prison film to end prison films, the definitive edition of convict sages. It is adequately enough constructed, and well provided with dramatic suspense. But there is nothing new about it. A corrupt city government precipitates two innocent youngsters into prison, the girl to be held for life, the boy to be hanged. There are borrowing days of suspense while the two look "for evidence to clear them. There are prison walls in Hollywood's best decor. Shadows of the gallows darken the screen, as the lovers say their rather affecting farewells...
...Lewis Mumford, famed author-critic, spoke up last week and said U. S. architects are "unfit to build houses for the America of the future unless they are able to plan as if working for a Communist government." Amplification of his remark was less dramatic. He explained that he meant the building of the future will be large-scale slum reclamation and large-scale cheap housing rather than work for the choosy individual...
...learn from the Wasichus some secret that might help his people, joined Buffalo Bill's Indians, went to New York, London and parts of Europe. He discovered no secret, returned to find the tribes aroused by the Messianic teachings of Wovoka, dancing the ghost dance that meant trouble for Wasichus. The butchering of warriors, women and children at Wounded