Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Times of London raised its editorial eyebrows in cold disapproval to note that electrical consumption in the United Kingdom rose 6% when an estimated 4,000,000 Britons turned on their radios and televisions to follow the Robinson-Turpin fight. The Times reproved its fuel-short readers, "it meant a consumption ... of about 70 tons of coal...
Obviously, such a postponement meant nothing. But if stalling for time was the embarrassed government's idea of how to deal with Communism, nothing could please the Communists more...
...Nelli, whose pre-Toscanini training with the Salmaggi and San Carlo opera companies gained her much experience but little fame, success in San Francisco meant a step closer to her dream of the Met, plus new confidence. Said she: "Lily Pons came back to my room and congratulated me. When one coloratura says something nice to another, you can be sure they mean...
...made another jump, turned round, pointed out of the window, and said in a loud voice something like "twanky tweedle." Both knew that neither the gesture nor the phrase was meant to convey a meaning. They simply expressed the fact that for Tom this was an important and exciting, a very special occasion...
This week McKeen showed just what he meant. As a result of a plant expansion that will double production, Pfizer sliced the price on terramycin, its biggest seller, from 15% to 40%. The cut was bound to shake down prices of terramycin's two great competitors, Lederle's aureomycin and Parke, Davis' chloromycetin...