Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steam, weighed anchor, laid down a smoke screen and left Admiralty Harbor, on the Atlantic side of Gibraltar. Scarcely had she moved from the British-protected waters before her crew saw rockets flare from a housetop on the Rock. No one needed to tell them what those flares meant: they were signals from Rebel watchers notifying Rebel warships patrolling the Straits of Gibraltar that the Jose Luis Diez, having waited for weeks to make her getaway, was trying a second time to run the blockade to a Loyalist port...
...issue of TIME there is a discussion of Aberdeen-Angus cattle in which the breed is described as the "most upstart of all U. S. cattle breeds." If by this phrase the writer meant that the Aberdeen-Angus was the latest of the recognized beef breeds to become established in the U. S., the statement is true; but so far as concerns Scotland, which is the birthplace of the breed, there are legal documents to show that there were black polled cattle in Aberdeenshire over 400 years ago, in 1523 (Macdonald & Sinclair's "History of Aberdeen-Angus Cattle...
Like seven other State winners in landowner and tenant classes, he had already received a check for $100 and a pedigreed Jersey bull calf. The sweepstakes prize meant that he had outstripped 27,000 other small holders and croppers in meeting the South's biggest agricultural problem: how to make the poorer farm families self-sufficient. Asked what he would do with his $600, Farmer Majure mused: "Guess I'll buy some more land to go with my 40 acres...
...Prokosch doubtless meant to write "opossum," doubtless did not think...
...Christmas Day of 1938, the world which Christ's coming had been meant to save, the age which had vainly taken his name for nearly 2,000 years, were a world and an age in which Christ's Gospel was met, nearly everywhere and nearly always, with lip service, pagan indifference, subtle hostility or outright persecution. Symptomatic was a Nazi decree that in Germany Christmas was to be celebrated in "Germanic" rather than Christian fashion, that religion was to be kept out of public Yule exercises...