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Word: intendent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Foreign Minister Saracoglu had a 90-minute talk with the British Ambassador, Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen, who was about to go to London for a conference. What they told him: 1) "No danger of war exists in the Balkans"; 2) "Turkey does not intend to enter war against Russia"; 3) "Turkey perseveres in her decision to remain outside the war." With the cat on duty again, the Turkish mice were not feeling so frolicsome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Perseverance | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...Sylt, Altmark and Spee affairs. Britons are not so prone as the restless French (see p. 20) to regard the war and their Government as passive. Nevertheless, War Secretary Oliver Stanley felt constrained to admonish domestic and foreign spectators who want more gore in World War II. "We intend to fight in our own way and not in their way," he snorted. "How easy it is, from the ringside, after a comfortable dinner, to urge other people to hit and go on hitting each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Blitzkrieg or Sitzkrieg? | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

...believe that there is a place somewhere in provincial America for a newspaper that will have the intelligence and influence of the Manchester Guardian of the old days. We have no fancy notions about being a national newspaper, but we intend to dig under the spot news of what is going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: South's Guardian | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

Leaders of the musicians' union here and in New York threatened to stage walkouts on the Pudding, if it hired a non-union orchestra. Brown explained that he could not afford to anger the unions since the Crimsonians intend to join the musicians' local here and to enter the commercial jazz field this spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROWN'S BAND LEFT H.P. PLAY TO AVOID UNION DIFFICULTIES | 3/2/1940 | See Source »

...prospect of alumni disappointed at finding nary a ripple left in the indoor pool, they have again changed the time, and pushed the swimming meet back on top of the hockey game. But still it's not too late to straighten things out. The majority of those who intend to come, the great block of undergraduate sports followers and outsiders really interested in the teams, can be reached through adequate publicity, and given a chance to see both of these events. It is reassuring to know that the H. A. A. is planning to avoid these mixups next year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ATHLETICS FOR WHOM! | 2/29/1940 | See Source »

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