Word: meant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...important step toward the rebuilding of Western Germany, on which depends the rebuilding of all Western Europe. The military governors of the U.S., British and French occupation zones announced that all of the import & export trade of those areas would henceforth be regulated by one centralized agency. That regulation meant the almost complete economic merger of U.S.-British Bizonia with the hitherto separate French zone. It was a firm answer to Russia, who, by putting on the screws in Berlin, is trying to make the West abandon Western German recovery...
...Cold. Ike donned horn-rimmed spectacles to read his 20-minute inaugural address, stopping once to snuffle into a handkerchief because of a bad cold. The new president's address was proper, unexciting, and meant to reassure everyone that he had laid down his sword & shield. Said Eisenhower: "If this were a land where the military profession is a weapon of tyranny or aggression-its members an elite caste dedicated to its own perpetuation-a lifelong soldier could hardly assume my present role. But in our nation the Army is the servant of the people ... Hence, among...
...farm glut had its compensations. Many New York butchers last week cut the price of top-grade beef from 85 to 69? a pound, and trimmed prices on some 20 other meats. Businessmen knew that lower food prices meant more cash released for other purchases. But even those who saw no recession ahead agreed with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: "We now face the difficult task of ... checking inflation without precipitating contraction...
...income, such deals have meant plenty to the Disney-Kamen partnership. Disney's last financial report lumped merchandising with income from comic strips and commercial pictures, at a yearly net of $1,048,522. Kamen, who makes no financial reports for his own private company, last week reckoned the 1948 gross at $1,000,000-of which, he said, Disney would get $700,000, Kamen...
...psychiatrist says conscience is often a doubtful asset, the clergyman ought to know what is meant and commend it, even though he may suggest sharpening up conscience so as not to imply non-concern for ethics. If a clergyman says men must recognize their sinfulness before salvation is possible, the psychiatrist ought to know what this means, even though cautioning against identification of the fact of sin with a sense of guilt...