Word: intend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...received a reputed $750,000 for being both undignified and vulgar." The word vulgar constitutes a grave injury to Miss Fields, her friends and public in England, where she is greatly beloved as your article states. I am a great admirer of TIME and know that it does not intend an affront but in England the epithet used will have a different implication and will have an injurious result. I have received a protest from Miss Field's manager in England and as the producer of her pictures I appeal to your sense of fairness to right the harm...
...specifying the nature of the menace, Mr. Lewis, a former Republican, offered as sweeping an indictment of capitalist economy as has ever come from a labor leader who is not an avowed Marxist. "We do not intend that our children shall starve in the midst of plenty," is the familiar Leftist battle cry which the C. I. 0. chief raised last week. "Hundreds of thousands of the people of this nation have for years on years been exploited, oppressed and denied the exercise of those rights guaranteed to them under our Constitution. . . . They have been little more than industrial serfs...
...British Intelligence Department of the War Office ("The Best in the World") decided to get a line on members of the Friends of the Soviet Union, openly organized in London as a movement opposed to war and Fascism. Knowing how carefully Communists probe the antecedents of anyone they intend to make use of, Intelligence did not risk assigning to the case a professional operative with a past which could come to light. They approached an ordinary stenographer -or rather an exceptionally pretty one- who readily agreed to do her bit for King & Country, joined the Friends...
Contrary to certain rumors, President Conant does not intend to cut down the enrollment of the undergraduate body. The present difficulties must therefore continue unless the University adopts some measure to eliminate them. Ideas of constructing a new house have been frustrated by the lack of funds and the necessity of a substantial waiting list to bid up the prices...
...Note:The Crimson did not intend any personal reflection in the editorial "Pals at the Polls"; it merely wondered about the validity of a Committee which as yet has done little more than cant and storm. Still in the same mood the Crimson wonders what success has been made with the petition which the Committee for Electoral Reform has so often mentioned...