Word: intendent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week for the American and Overseas Aeronautical Corp., a company capitalized at $150,000 to back another effort by me, next summer, to fly from New York to Paris Hotelkeeper Raymond C. Orteig's $25,000 prize offer was 'merely incidental' to our plan. I intend to use another ship made by the builders of the S-35, the trimotored Sikorsky which turned a cartwheel as we were taking off in it for Paris last autumn and burned up two of my companions. If successful this time we might we hinted, establish a transatlantic mail...
...curriculum in the course in Business policy for the second half-year, it was announced by the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. This course is required for all students in the second year of the Business School, so that the new arrangement pertains to all men who intend to graduate from the School...
...offer or they would live to regret it, but that after all is neither here nor there. The point at issue is that I am deeply insulted and mortified that my name is not on the register of those fit to be invited to parties of that nature, and intend to show you that I deeply resent your discourtesy. Why, I wouldn't think of going now! Not if you sent every darned instructor in the institution to me in person. I won't go near the place, and I hope your old party is a total failure, and everybody...
...plan to write an opera, now or in the future?' . . ." He got his answer: "NO, I do not intend to ever write an opera-to sing them is enough for me . . . NOT EVER!" And he had the wit to use his own difficulty as padding for an otherwise slim interview. He cunningly hit upon "Our Mary's" infinitive-splitter, the adverb "ever," as the key word for his story. And something almost unprecedented took place. A cub reporter on a large metropolitan daily not only got his first effort into print, but the city editor...
...direct message, for I am by no means as sure that he reads all my letters as that he reads all of TIME. . . . I'm going to be wholly frank with you, in full confidence that you will not take advantage of a fellow's straightforwardness. I intend, if all else fails, to send you five dollars before Jan. 1. That's how desperate I am. ROSCOE MACY...