Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...style change with the changes in modern life. In May he sent to the Royal Academy a highly formalized picture of Christ's entry into Jerusalem. The British press received it with the angry snorts generally reserved for the opera of Sculptor Jacob Epstein. Apparently it meant a great deal to Billy Orps. His health broke down, he spent most of the summer in a nursing home. Recently he was discharged and attempted to get on with his painting. Last week came the final relapse...
Soon after they left Samishiro Herndon cut a wire which let the plane's landing gear drop into the sea, reducing the load by 300 Ib. and the head resistance by 17%. It meant that wherever they came down they would have to land the plane on its belly...
...District Attorney Blue was not ready to accept that theory. He wanted to investigate reports that Mrs. Collings had been seen dining with a man about 50, to find out what she meant when she said, in speaking of the attack: ''They would have gone through with their bargain just the same," to substantiate her reported statement that she had been unhappy with her husband. He announced she would not be called at the inquest. He explained: "By calling her now she could not be asked to waive immunity." As the inquest began without her, Prosecutor Blue...
Word was flashed to London. Next day when the starboard watch went ashore there were more mass meetings. There was no more talk of Communism; one Communist agitator that suddenly appeared was beaten up and kicked out of town. But the men meant business. In the morning the acting Commander-in-Chief Rear Admiral Wilfred Tomkinson signalled the battleship Valiant to hoist anchor and lead the line...
...leader would look like and how he would act if he were chosen according to Eastern standards. The result is the picture here shown-Mr. Hoover seated at a spinning wheel, contemplating his navel. There is no intention to ridicule anybody with this picture. It is merely meant to illustrate the great gulf that is fixed between Eastern and Western ideas...