Word: intend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suggesting that the well-to-do graduates spend at least two years abroad "exploring the minds and strange conduct of the very different peoples who make our planet so much unalike." The editor cites the fact that the number of men from the Harvard class of 1932 who intend to enroll in the graduate schools is ten percent greater than that of the class of 1926 who remained for post-graduate study. If as many as possible of these men would devote their time and money to travel with a serious purpose, the argument runs, America would enjoy the same...
...Baseball is a swell way to make a living," said Art (The Great) Shires, in an interview while putting on his clothes in the locker-room after a recent Braves victory, "but I intend to go to Law School as soon as I've had my fling at the game. I guarantee that I can make three times as much money and meet twice as many people by playing baseball for ten years than a man who goes to school immediately and begins to practice law for ten years...
...announced the Farm Board, are its other 650,000 bales or the 2,100,000 bales owned by the American Cotton Cooperative Association, its debtor. In addition, the Department of Agriculture owns 365,155 bales of cotton accepted as collateral on defaulted seed loans, but does not intend to dispose of them "in the immediate future...
...Columbia in philosophy and psychology, courses in art at the Metropolitan Museum. And he has not neglected his social life. Last week he said: "Of course it's hard on Mrs. Hoving, pulling up winter stakes at 45 East 85 and summer stakes at Tuxedo Park, but we intend to go out to Lake Forest as the Chicago equivalent to Tuxedo Park...
...Reconstruction Finance Corp. We're not giving any money away. We're loaning it on adequate security. We could have political bunk and political smut committees and damned demagogy down there at the corporation but we're doing a business job and, damn it, we intend to continue doing it. If we make any mistakes wait until the return of better times and then, if you want to, give us hell individually. . . ." Charles Gates Dawes is credited with being the shrewdest exponent of studied indiscretion since Theodore Roosevelt. Political observers were stirred by his sudden, profanely popular...