Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clarksdale, Miss., last week, a fireman found a locust with a yellow W on its back. Old settlers said it meant war in seven years, told of similar locusts appearing before the last war, the Spanish American War, the Civil War, the Mexi...
...India, a patrol of the 17th Poona horse (Indian) rode last week through the sun-speckled fruit orchards. From somewhere rifles cracked. Six troopers dropped from their saddles. The rest wheeled, galloped back to barracks. British officers wasted no time, for they knew what the shots in the orchard meant. In five minutes bugles were blowing, cavalry, artillery were mounting, galloping out of town. At Peshawar's air station, 54 Royal Air Force pilots climbed into their planes, roared up into the blue...
Lord Parmoor gazed at him acidly. "I meant," said he, "the great Lord Salisbury...
...Certain interests [he meant the grain brokers] which seem to feel they have a God-given right to handle the products of the farmers, and who have accumulated immense fortunes in doing so ... doubtless will be easy picking for any politician of any party who is willing to play their game...
...Nature. As in many another industry, time was when Nature had a monopoly on nitrates, which meant that Chile had a monopoly. For practically all the world's natural nitrate comes from a certain desolate plateau high up in the Andes in northern Chile, a 450-mi. stretch utterly barren of water and vegetation.* But since the War, synthetic nitrogen has been steadily rolling up tonnage, while Chilean nitrate has remained almost stationary. Thus, in the "Fertilizer Year" (which begins June 1) of 1927-1928, synthetic production of pure nitrogen was 1,267,000 metric tons, Chilean...