Word: meant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wisely aiding, Dewey meant wisely administering. There must be a change in method. Ten times during his 3,000-word speech, ex-Prosecutor Dewey indicted the administration for its "serious economic and diplomatic blunders...
Essentially, Tom Dewey plainly implied, that meant getting a Republican back in the White House. Whatever success U.S. foreign policy had had to date, he attributed to the bipartisan policy Candidate Dewey had "had the honor to inaugurate" in 1944 and to the actions of the Both Congress. Said he: "It may well eventuate that the election of a Republican Congress last year not only saved the domestic affairs of the United States, but it may well also save the peace of the world...
Newshawks must be alert-as courts are-to the changing meanings of words. "Racket," which once meant a mere trick-and was not libelous-now means an illegal business-and may be. The greatest danger, Wittenberg points out, is that newspapers, with no ready means of checking many of the stories they print, must rely on the accuracy of the wire services and news syndicates. Yet in 47 states (only Florida excepted), newspapers cannot avoid libel suits by blaming news services for mistakes. Wittenberg thinks a change is due, along the lines of a 1932 Florida decision, which ruled that...
...gloomy prediction was on the way to coming true. Most of the 600-odd manufacturers who attended held out for price increases ranging from 10% to 15%. As a result, purchases by some 12,000 buyers were considerably smaller in physical volume, though not in dollar value. This meant that shoes this winter and spring would be scarcer and higher...
Rutgers Targum editor William Mackenzie and cheerleader Douglas Campbell took possession of the cannon Thursday afternoon at a Kirkland House rendezvous. They came in answer to a midweek telegram from the thief reading: HAD NOT REALIZED THE CANNON MEANT SO MUCH TO RUTGERS. THE DEED WAS DONE OUT OF A SPIRIT OF PRANKISHESS...