Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suspension of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau in 1935 meant a great loss to the people who for many years had been helped by it, and its restoration makes a significant contribution to the justice of the community...
Unfortunately all the George Apleys and their wives seem to think they are being made game of. Certainly neither the nice Mr. Santayana nor even Mr. Marquand meant to do that. They were merely showing them off, as one shows a most prized heirloom. George Apley, with his five-button coat, is to America as the Breton peasant woman with her super-headdress is to France; perhaps some day he too will adorn the pages of the National Geographic on the dentist's waiting-room table...
When the can makers began poaching on the beer bottle preserve of the glass makers, big Owens-Illinois glass came back with a can-making unit. Last year Owens sold about $6,000,000 worth of cans, which meant perhaps 300,000,000. More annoying to American and Continental is Baltimore's Crown Cork & Seal, No. 1 maker of bottle caps. Last year Crown sold a subsidiary automotive supply business called Detroit Gasket, started to put the proceeds into tin cans. Its production last year was trifling, and even this year after a big new Philadelphia plant is completed...
Earnán Ó Maille, to give him his Gaelic, was a boy of 18 when the Trouble started. Old Mother Ireland and her woes meant little to him: his family were gentry and his childhood in Mayo and Dublin had been governess-guarded. But when the guns began to pop in Dublin's Easter Week rising, O Malley's heart told him that he was Irish too. He sneaked out of the house after dark, joined a pal who had a rifle, took turns firing at British rifle flashes. Soon he had joined the Irish Republican Army...
...broken man. George Rowan married one of the Allard girls, was enjoying his favored position as aide to a handsome general when a sharpshooter got him at Chickamauga. Cousin Rives married Lucy Allard and went off to be one of Forrest's scouts. Lucy gradually learned what that meant, got almost used to the idea of his death. When the news came at last, it was hardly more than she had expected. The Allard place was plundered and burnt by the Yankees ; old Mr. Allard got a stroke from the shock. At war's end, with the slaves...