Word: intendent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expenses to balance the budget. But when Republican politicians like Mr. Jahncke claim all the credit for these relief measures, Speaker Garner gets fighting mad. Warned he: "It's well enough to talk of a political truce but let me tell you that the kind of truce we intend is not that the Administration shall continue hostilities while we abstain from them." Last week Speaker Garner led the House into a clear-cut split with President Hoover on Government re-organization for economy's sake. Instead of giving the President blanket authority to trim and weed and consolidate...
...Engineering Sciences Field as it now stands embodies a scope and an approach to electricity in particular that is a worthy one. In an increasingly mechanized world such as ours, with the uses of electricity growing daily, it is not far fetched to think that men who intend to enter government, for example, would do well to have a slight knowledge of the workings of the electrical relations...
These changes offer a freedom of choice in the department which has not been possible before and permits undergraduates who intend, upon graduation, to enter an engineering school, to obtain preparation fitting them for the immediate pursuit of professional studies in any of the common branches of engineering...
...exhibition of these pictures is sensational. But sensational not only for its novelty, but because the "Surrealistes" often deliberately purpose to shock and surprise, so that you may be deprived of all preconceived standards open to new impressions. They intend to shock, as the safe-breaker might pare the skin off his finger-tips, so that his supersensitized bared flesh might the better feel the fumblers fall; to shock as the bull-fighter first uncovers the nerves of his audience by the wilful and barbaric shedding of blood and disemboweling of defenseless horses, so that the supersensitized public might...
...grounds that all the defendants have been guilty since the Institute was proposed in 1927 and intend to carry on with the "conspiracy." the United States prayed the Court "to dissolve and forever discontinue the Institute," to forbid any further combination of the members . . . and to make the Institute pay all the trial's costs...