Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Much confusion resulted from reports of the ultimatum, but at week's end the main results were that Rumania agreed to give Germany temporarily a greater share of her trade while refusing to surrender any political rights. Discussions were described as "progressing amicably," which probably meant that Rumania would be as tractable as she thought necessary, would stanchly refuse to give in if backed by Britain and France. Meanwhile, just in case of trouble, King Carol ordered some 500,000 soldiers to man Rumania's western frontiers...
...from the London Telegraph for criticizing British foreign policy in his book, Betrayal in Central Europe, Correspondent G. E. R. Gedye published in evidence of censorship: "Today one great Conservative newspaper is actually binding its foreign correspondents to write nothing whatever outside its columns without permission." Everybody knew he meant the London Times...
About 25 Sophomores and Juniors reported to Coach Dick Harlow and his aids in Briggs Cage yesterday afternoon to swell the total number of participants in this spring's football drills to 65. For Captain Torby Macdonald, the first squad practice simply meant a switch over from his last week's coaching duties to his regular spot as Crimson No. 1 tail back...
Some of the books which Dean Sperry discusses, such as Theologia Germanica or Brother Lawrence's The Practice of the Presence of God, are not very familiar to those outside the Church. Consequently, while Strangers and Pilgrims was meant primarily to be a book of criticism, it will serve many lay readers as an excellent introduction to these masterpieces. Delving into a primary source in Christian theology is no easy matter for the lay reader. Language, terminology, unfamiliar dogma, all conspire to hide the author's purpose. Yet with the scholarly background which Dean Sperry has provided for each...
Sure, vacation is near, but not yet excitingly near. Welles has gone; Hepburn has come; the opera sells itself out. The first paragraph of a news story reads: "Czechoslovakia was." Just Czechoslovakia was, period. A character in Shaw's "Pygmalion" snaps: "Yes, I said 'God' and I meant every word of it!" Daylight lengthens, but supper is still its deadline. Students eat goldfish, and dog food, and the ice cream record falls...