Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week his goal was still in sight. The emergency decree with its Price Commissioner, its arbitrary fixing of interest rates, rents, even doctors' fees, meant that the Brüning Dictatorship was trying to out-Hitler Hitler. Germany was operating under a system of state capitalism. The experiment might fail any instant. Adolf Hitler sat in Berlin and waited...
...What is meant by society so far as your paper and your contracts and your purposes are concerned...
...When Statesman John Hay once complained to Harte that he was short of funds, Harte replied: "Your own fault. Why did you fool away your money paying your debts?" When friends got him the job of U. S. commercial agent at Crefeld, Germany he took it gratefully, though it meant leaving his wife and family behind. He never rejoined them: from Crefeld he was shifted to Glasgow as consul; when President Cleveland and the Democrats came in (1885) and Harte lost his job, he decided to stay in England. He tried every kind of writing (even advertisements), attempted many plays...
...groups which fall to recognize it. Dr. Bntler's cardinal proposal, however, that the War Department be abolished in favor of a Department of National Defense, is of more doubtful value. To hide the business of war behind a euphemism while retaining its nature is at best a well-meant subterfuge. It is pleasant to think that "war between nations is as much out of date as the torture chamber or the scalping knife," but so long as such a nation as the Japanese cling to old fashioned methods, the fact will have to be faced. It is doubtful...
Just to make things more difficult Poet Cummings has a vivid if erratic sense of humor. Many of his more intricate effects are meant as jokes. Plodding enthusiasts cannot always tell which is which...