Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pestiferous, parthenogenetic thrip may well seem comparable to Hitler's promises. But Carter Glass meant a threepenny piece. ("Tizzy" is British slang for sixpence...
...union's first objective-the closed shop. What Mr. Frankensteen wanted now was a change in bargaining procedure, asking that the procedure be tightened up, provision be made for arbitration of disputes not settled by earlier steps. Mr. Weckler said ho, arbitration was impossible; that it meant, in the final analysis, the handing-over of plant operation to outsiders. Neither side disclosed what kind of arbitration plan was discussed. Mr. Frankensteen straightway produced a 1933 Chrysler agreement, in which arbitration was a major provision of Walter Percy Chrysler's company-union plan...
...Majesty knows when these little courtesies count. She was not at home when ex-King Amanullah of Afghanistan toured European courts, but she went out of her way to give a ceremonious welcome to Hirohito, then Crown Prince and now Emperor of Japan. Afghanistan meant nothing in The Netherlands' life; Japan, a bad neighbor in the Far East, meant a great deal...
...Vexed, Mrs. Walter D. Lamar, retiring president of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, last week retorted: "That insult to the best part of America shows both ignorance and stupidity. . . ." Hastily Mr. Churchill's secretaries rushed off answers to letter-writing Southerners, assured them that Mr. Churchill had meant to draw no "analogy...
...billhead meant what it said. Francis X. Shields and Sidney B. Wood, the young tennists whose teamwork was the talk of two continents in 1931 when they reached the semi-finals of the U. S. and Wimbledon Doubles Championships, had teamed up again, in the laundry business...