Word: meant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This sort of talk was reflecting on his integrity. He had meant his disavowal and he still meant it. That was final. Reporter Roberts, said Ike, could make that as strong as he wanted...
...Roberts-Darby group had won 13 of the state's 19 delegates to the national convention, and would doubtless force stubborn Alf Landon out as delegation chairman. It meant that Darby-who is for Dewey on the first ballot-would make the decisions of the Kansas delegation at Philadelphia in June. Roberts, who has a reasonably tough hide, used to wince at reminders of his 1936 fiasco with Landon. Now, enjoying his role as a friendly enemy of Alf's, he pushed his belly back from his desk and nodded: "Fine. Fine...
Coulson's single in the third, Essayen's infield hit and two wild pitches in the seventh gave the Crimson a 2 to 1 margin going into the last two innings. This meant little, however, when Turner, Roche, and shortstop Ernie Mannino neatly sandwiched errors around two singles and a double in the eighth to allow four Suffolks to score...
Picasso found a traditional basis for cubism in primitive African sculpture: the tradition Matisse chose to explore had never quite disappeared from Europe. It still existed in playing cards, tattooing and music-hall posters. They created no illusion of space or of sculptural form, though understanding some of them meant reading form and space into their flat designs. They delighted the eye through an interplay of only two elements: color and line. Matisse set out to do the same...
Optimists took heart from the fact that six successive days of 1,000,000-share-plus trading, which meant a lot of profit-taking by those who had bought stocks at their lows, had failed to drive prices down. Whether the market had the strength for a further shove upward was still to be shown. At week's end, with the Dow-Jones industrials up only .83 for the week's 5,710,000-share turnover, Wall Street's crystal ball was still as cloudy as ever. This week it was further clouded by a strike...