Word: meant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Copies. As the electors gathered around a table in the governor's reception room, they discovered that only 13 had come to the meeting. This meant that two substitutes had to be rounded up. That done, all 15 had to be sworn in. After that, they elected a chairman, and jostled into a group to be photographed...
Translated (although few readers were likely to do so), all that this hodgepodge meant was that the Mirror had been wrong in the first place, and was now boastfully admitting...
...last month, Levine continued, he received a telegram from Chambers: "Arriving Sunday at 10 o'clock. Have my things ready." Levine said he was not sure what Chambers meant. When Chambers arrived, he reminded Levine of the envelope. Together they went to Levine's mother's house at 260 Rochester Avenue, Brooklyn, where Levine had hidden the envelope on top of an unused dumbwaiter shaft. Levine testified that Chambers blew the dust off the envelope, opened it, glanced at the contents and exclaimed: "Holy cow! I didn't think this still existed." Chambers then took...
...report doesn't hurt NSA," he said. "It was meant to convey the impression that NSA is not dominated by Communists or the extreme left wing...
...what? "Held themselves. It's my theory that the English don't hold themselves up so well because of their climate, constantly walking into the wind and so forth, whereas the Burmese grow up towards the sun. You know, Memorial Church reminds me somehow of Burma." I suggested she meant Memorial Hall. It could be Burmese. "No, Memorial Church, with all its whiteness, struck me that way when I first...