Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make it a permanent agency, he may stress the corps' present military values. Once he was quoted as saying that after the regular six-month CCC enrollment a graduate was "85% prepared for military life." His publicity man says a reporter put the figure in his mouth; he meant 50%. Army officers consider three months' intensive training the minimum necessary to turn a green man into a conscript fighter, thinks CCCers may be useful after a month of drill & discipline. Other military potentials of CCC: the permanent, continuously up-to-date list of CCC names kept...
...Gavin Hamilton, TIME'S profoundest apologies for widowing her and presenting her with stock not hers. In any case, TIME never meant to imply that nepotism promoted her able...
...prime occupation of scholars. The King James Version, most familiar to the English-speaking world (ordered by the late Queen Elizabeth's pious, witch-hunting successor), is a 17th-Century revision in the light of then available Greek and Hebrew texts. The Revised Version (1881, 1885) was meant to bring the Bible up to date; the Goodspeed-Smith "American" Bible of a few years ago did so even more thoroughly. Last week, in Chicago, Professor William Louis Bailey of Northwestern University revealed that he had a New Testament ready for publication, declared that he was the first sociologist...
...years the most distinguished literary quarterly in the English language has been The Criterion, published in London under the editorship of T. S. Eliot. The current issue carries Editor Eliot's announcement that The Criterion is at an end. To the reading public at large, this news meant little, not so to many a writer and serious reader on both sides of the Atlantic...
...York City's bouncing Comptroller Joseph D. McGoldrick last week boasted that in five years the LaGuardia unco-honest Fusion Administration had cost taxpayers $325,664,347 less than the last five years of Tammany rule. The Citizens Budget Commission looked at his figures, said he must have meant $125,664,347. So he did, replied Mr. McGoldrick, confessing a $200,000,000 error...