Word: intendent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When his plump-cheeked wife got the news in the London suburb of Forest Hill, she gave regal audience to newshawks: "I intend to take my responsibilities as Queen seriously. My two sons are excited at the idea that they are now Princes." But before the royal family could get to the coronation city of Khotan on the southern rim of the Taklamakan Desert, the troops of General Shen Shih-tsai, young Chinese provincial governor, swooped down on King Khalid with planes furnished by Soviet Russia. Last week a brief dispatch from the sand bowl disposed of the pickle maker...
Senator Schall: This shows that the people of the United States do not intend to be fooled much longer. . . . This case should be almost as big a boomerang as the unconstitutional cancellation of air mail contracts...
...Senior Class reveals choices for life occupations ranging from those of the conventional bankers and lawyers to those of the farmer and practical mycologist. About one third of the class have indicated that they have not yet decided what will be their walk of life, while a second third intend to continue their studies in the graduate schools...
...Federal Government from Greece, he could have been tried only on the fraudulent bankruptcy charge. Instead he was deported from Turkey as an undesirable alien. As his deportation was stringless, he can be tried on any and all of the indictments. This delights the Government attorneys because they intend to try him first for using the mails to defraud. If he is acquitted on that charge, he will be tried under the bankruptcy law. If that also fails he will be turned over to Illinois to see what that State can do with him in the way of punishment...
...gradual decline of the University preeminently as an educational institution. There is definitely a place for both the research man and the teacher in any institution of higher learning. Students attend a university for the purpose of preparing themselves either culturally or specifically for a career they intend to pursue afterwards. They want and need men who can lecture to them interestingly and impart their subject matter with skill and clarity. A certain amount of research is necessary in order to keep the subject living and progressive, and there should of course, be men to take care of this important...