Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trip was not a highly financed, well organized exploration but more the quest for adventure by four men, only one of whom had had any experience in the jungle. Facing death became such a commonplace that it meant little or nothing and often was approached with a fearless joy for the struggle. Picture the author, confronted at night by two gleaming eyes a few yards down the jungle path, and at a loss what to do, breaking into song and seeing the eyes disappear. Song proved to be a boon to the little band of explorers because at another time...
...would need to be told came out of an Austrian novel. He had fairly good material to work with-the story of a young lieutenant who, during a review for visiting royalty, winked at his girl just as the Princess went past. The Princess thought the wink had been meant for her and married the lieutenant who used the royal police force to assist his attentions to his old sweetheart. Finally she (Claudette Colbert) transformed the Princess (Miriam Hopkins) into a satisfactory bride by showing her what kind of clothes to wear. Typical shots: Chevalier embracing Claudette Colbert; Chevalier explaining...
...declared Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes last week in rendering a Supreme Court decision which meant life for New York City and death for six little hamlets in Delaware County, N. Y. By the court's order New York was allowed to divert 440,000,000 gal. per day from certain tributaries of the Delaware River to add to the city's ever-growing water supply (TIME, April 27). By the same decree Arena (pop. 216), Dunraven (pop. 104), Union Grove (pop. 204), Shavertown (pop. 219), Pepacton (pop. 27) and pos-sibly Downsville (pop. 532) will be blotted...
...accident made his scientific career. For the subsequent operation turned his busy, acquisitive, ambitious brain to medicine, then to bacteriology. He learned very easily. So he lazied with geishas, saki, talk and chess. He borrowed money, for his schooling and travels, with amazing ingenuity. He always meant to repay loans, but rarely did with more than gratitude : "I hope the master [who financed most of his vagaries, including steerage passage to San Francisco] will take care of his honorable wife [who sold her precious marriage kimono for his maintenance]. . . . Please remember me to all who have eaten...
...high praise even from so belittling a Lawrence critic as John Middleton Murry. Devoutly orthodox Christians may find the story blasphemous (it will certainly be awarded a place on the Pope's Index Librorum Prohibitor urn) but regular Lawrence readers will doubtless take it as it was meant...