Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours of flying, "long skip" was an understatement. TIME meant miles...
Like patent-medicine manufacturers, the Oxford Groups of Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman esteem testimonials. From their London and Manhattan headquarters they send out batches of statements from the great and the near-great, praising their trademarked remedy-or at least denouncing the ills it is meant to cure...
...District Attorney Lamar Hardy confessed that the convictions of these small fry merely scratched the surface of espionage. Judge Knox thought the trial was a constructive lesson for inquisitive Nazis, sternly reminded the defendants: "In this country, we spread no sawdust on ... our prison yards." He meant that the U. S. did not behead its spies. (In war time, it could shoot or hang them.) Next day in Berlin, a Nazi headsman decapitated two spies for "unnamed foreign powers...
...elegant, bemonocled French Ambassador feigned not to understand what was meant in the Chamber when all the Deputies without exception jumped to their feet and, encouraged by two eminent Fascist scream-leaders, screamed in frenzied Italian unison : "Tunisia! Tunisia...
...scream-leaders were His Excellency Grand Councilor Achille Starace ("The Panther Man"), Secretary General of the Fascist Party since 1932, and His Excellency Roberto Farinacci ("Italian Jew Baiter No. 1"), who that very day had been promoted to Councilor of State.* The screams of all Italian Deputies meant of course that Italy was asking France to give her Tunisia as the Reich was given the Sudetenland, without a fight...