Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down and did nothing, and while he did it the situation worked out much to his advantage. New Dealers in Senate and House took the initiative without involving him, thereby appeasing those who wanted action, while the President continued to enjoy the love of Labor to whom silence meant consent...
...their products were going up accordingly. For example, some mines can produce copper at 5?, or 6? a Ib, but copper was selling at 17?. And the price of steel was up $6 a ton. These prices, he intimated were too high, much more than covered increased labor costs, meant that a larger share of the national income was going into building factories and machines, a smaller share into wages and the purchase of food & clothing. According to one economic theory, this condition tends to cause depressions. To counteract this tendency the Federal Government would give up building steel bridges...
...history. So lightly held are they in the land to which they have given their lives and whose civil servants they have been for a generation, that recently the First Commonwealth Assembly, pressed for funds, voted to liquidate the Philippine Bureau of Education's teachers pension fund. This meant that the Thomasites would not get the retirement pensions toward which they had been contributing 3% of their meagre salaries (ranging from $900 to $1,500) for 35 years...
Disguised in turn as an Indian healer, a Persian Dervish, a Pathan, Burton escaped five bandit raids, performed the complicated Moslem rituals letter-perfect (a slip-up meant being crucified), did not return to England to capitalize on his fame or to refute a new assortment of rumors that he had robbed a Cairo post office and murdered an Arab who saw through his disguise. Instead he headed an expedition into unmapped Somaliland. succeeded where five previous attempts had failed in reaching Harar, saved himself by a feat of flattery from being killed. On another expedition into Somaliland...
...feminist or not, woman or not, she believes that to be a good writer demands something more still. "If one is a man, still the woman part of the brain must have effect; and a woman must also have intercourse with the man in her. Coleridge perhaps meant this when he said that a great mind is androgynous. It is when this fusion takes place that the mind is fully fertilized and uses all its faculties. Perhaps a mind that is purely masculine cannot create, any more than a mind that is purely feminine. It is fatal...