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Word: meant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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What waging that peace meant, Dewey defined in specific terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: We Will Wage Peace | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...year-old Mayor Bowron, a chronic worrier, this has merely meant more problems to worry about, e.g., how to get more houses, more schools, more water, more express highways. Says he of his sprawling city's increasing bigness: "I hated to see it come, but here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Bowron's Boom Town | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...first contestant, failing to explain what "atom" meant in the original Greek, was penalized with a harmless jolt from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Atom with a Cherry on Top | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...American Guild of Variety Artists, however, Petrillo's words meant war. The A.G.V.A. had guilded the harmonica long since; it did not want it unionized into Boss Petrillo's clutches. Said an A.G.V.A. official last week: "We're like a punch-drunk fighter who's going in against the champ. But some day, even the champ has to fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Caesar & the Harmonica | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

Maggie & Jiggs, said Goldsmith, had called the turn on a stock last June 15 when Jiggs said: "The intermissions are the only good things about this show." "Obviously," said Goldsmith, "that meant that Mission Oil was the only good buy." He so advised his customers, and two days later Mission Oil hit a new high. (Goldsmith also discovered tips in the Wall Street Journal's "Pepper and Salt" joke column...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH FINANCE: The Forecaster | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

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