Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...profit. The matured notes bore 3½% interest. They were retired with a bond issue at 3⅜% and (figuratively) short-term securities at 2% and 1½%. This represented a reduction from 3.75% to 3.72% in the interest rate on the gross public debt. Small in percentage, it meant an actual annual saving of $15,700,000 in the Government's interest payments...
...front page, the CRIMSON prints today a long and sincere discussion of the crew situation at Harvard, written by a graduate and former oarsman, who hopes to precipitate an open forum on rowing at Harvard from which may come advantageous reforms. Mr. Foster's letter, however well-meant it is, is based entirely on a misconception of the part the alumnus is to play in the conduct of college affairs. Further, it assumes what the CRIMSON feels cannot rightly be assumed that rowing conditions at Harvard are at present in a state that demands reforms...
...President of Chicago's potent Crane (plumbing) Co., onetime U. S. Minister to China (1920-21). When the Harvard publicity office divulged that Harvard's Russian bells are "the gift of a member of the Crane family," there could be no doubt as to which Crane was meant...
...been the New York-Boston schedule of American Airways' Colonial Division. Last week the schedule was speeded up to six planes each way, one every two hours. Explained President Frederic Gallup Coburn: "It has been the necessary practice of airlines in the past to offer infrequent schedules, which meant passengers must adjust themselves to the service. . . . We are reversing that order." But another incentive for the doubled pressure might have been the report that Ludington line, which operates a plane-per-hour service between New York and Washington, was thinking of flying between Boston and New York...
...Since the affair is to be built by a commission, I can not see how one with such individual ideas as Mr. Wright could work with it. Our projects are meant to represent a fair cross section of something or other about modern architecture in America and it would be too difficult to harness Mr. Wright to our general ideas...