Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ambiguity of the 1917 declaration by Arthur James Balfour, British Foreign Secretary, can be attributed Britain's contradictory rule in the old Kingdoms of Israel and Judah. A one-sentence, 67-word declaration, it promised a "Jewish national homeland" but conspicuously failed to define whether a Jewish homeland meant a home with an Arab or a Jewish majority. At first high Arab leaders, equally lulled by Lord Balf our's vagueness, were inclined to welcome their "Semitic brothers" back to the Holy Land...
...military-minded, the demonstration proved that even a mobile enemy radio unit would have to be extremely laconic to avoid detection; to the airline safety-minded, it meant that a pilot off his course could orient himself almost as fast as he could tune in radio bearings...
...that silk might be on the verge of losing its only remaining big U.S. market-hosiery. Last week du Pont officials announced that they were considering sites for a $7,000,000 "textile yarn" plant, which will normally give work to about 1,000 employes. To the trade this meant that du Pont was ready to begin commercial production of Fibre...
...presented an appeal for a contribution to a fund; and that the contribution was to be in my honor as a "champion of democracy" and to go to Dr. Juan Negrin, Prime Minister of the Spanish Republic. Dr. Miller wrote, "I wish to protest against this." Just what he meant by "this" is not clear...
...hadn't meant to read that poem when he picks up his Kipling. And now he thought of young John Kipling of the Irish Guards, lying under a white wooden cross in his same "tireless soil." How did it go? "There is some spot on foreign ..." Vag checked himself. He wouldn't think about that. The hand of death had lain heavily on France, but there were parts it had not touched, parts where there were laughter and bright lights and crowded busses, parts where people danced all through the night and the sky was pink from the neon below...