Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...formal motion to recess, which requires a vote and cannot be defeated by a single objector, he got the House away to dinner and a three-day respite from Illinois' Church. On Monday, when the House reconvened, Agriculture Committee Chairman Marvin Jones brought up his Farm Bill. This meant that the House at last really had some business to attend to-and that Ralph Edwin Church's private parade in the U. S. headlines was completely finished...
seized prove that the leaders intended to replace the republican form of government by a dictatorial regime that was meant to precede restoration of the monarchy...
That Congress was paying far less heed than the President might have wished to the program he had asked it to attend to, by no means meant that it was doing nothing last week. On the contrary, it meant principally that an extraordinary session called when there was nothing very extraordinary going on, had assembled when something most extraordinary was. This was of course, Recession. Notoriously liberal in regard to spending money, Congress is otherwise generally inclined to be conservative. The problem most on the minds of both Houses last week was helping business. In the ways it considered...
...plain-garbed, plain-spoken Mennonites and Amishmen of Pennsylvania, the New Deal has meant a far from abundant life. Because the Amish churches frown upon written contracts, loans, gifts and joining secular organizations, the "plain people" declined to sign contracts with the AAA, or accept its benefits, although they were willing to reduce acre: age where the law required. Mennonites in industry pay Social Security taxes, but declare they will not accept Social Security pensions. Nor will they join labor unions, although they meekly allow union dues to be "checked off" their wages...
...lyre." Even hard-headed Julius Caesar, with his general's ear for music, mentioned in his Gallic War that the Druidic warriors "learn by heart a great number of verses." Scholars have long puzzled over Welsh manuscripts of the 12th Century, trying to decipher lines and circles that meant chords to Cambrian harpists. The Welsh apparently invented harmony, structural basis of all modern European music, dressed their tunes in accompaniments when the countrymen of Bach and Palestrina still took their melody barbarously naked...