Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With characteristic British "refusal to be moved attitude," we all changed for dinner, although it meant sitting in a very cool sitting-room afterwards, without a fire and washing in a pitch dark bathroom, as they had not gotten their curtains back from the cleaners and we couldn't show a light. (Curse Hitler...
Speaking for the Führer, he said that the Chamberlain reply was "insolent" and "stupid." It was "totally devoid of vision" or "comprehension of the world situation." The Prime Minister's failure to grasp the "outstretched hand" of the Führer meant that the British wanted to annihilate the German nation. "Let's see who will be annihilated," snapped Press Chief Dietrich...
Perhaps "Hollywood Cavalcade," as its title implies, is meant to tell the evolution of the movie industry from a puny stream to a raging torrent. But as the film works out, it tells of a rollicking freshet that grew into a sprawling, limpid river. To apostles of "progress" in the movie industry, this picture is indeed discouraging, for as it progresses from its first sequences of riotous cinematic primitivism it steadily loses audience interest...
What Thoreau really meant by his life was even less clear to succeeding generations, began to clarify at last under the triumph of industrialism, the rise of dictatorships. In the 1930s this "friend of woodchucks and enemy of the State emerges as the most read and most readable U. S. writer of his time...
...eccentricities, prickliness, perversities, were in fact the Yankee thorns that protected him against the embrace of the Transcendentalists, the fashionable gentilities of the Lowells and Longfellows, the transient Utopianisms of the Alcotts, the dated rhetoric of his contemporaries. What moderns can see, what his contemporaries missed, is that Thoreau meant what he said. He was, he declared, a "Realometer," working his feet "downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice and tradition, and delusion, and appearance ... to a hard bottom...