Word: intendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most apparent transformation has taken place within the Harvard Dramatic Club, which three years ago was demoralized and near insolvency. Now, however, the HDC has generated a University-wide renascence of quality and vigor in drama. No more than six or seven members of this central group intend theatre careers, but their productions have already achieved occasional brilliance--by any professional standard...
...Matador squadron served a twofold purpose: 1) it provided a welcome boost in morale for Chiang's government (the English-language China News reported itself "greatly cheered" at the news), and 2) it served blunt warning to Chinese Communists on the mainland that the U.S. does not intend to let them build up jet bases on the mainland opposite Formosa without providing an effective counter-defense. Now within range of the Matador are new Red jet bases in the Shanghai-Canton-Hankow triangle and the coastal bases of Foochow, Amoy and Swatow, on the mainland 100 miles across...
...spoke for a record-breaking (for Texas) 36 hours and two minutes-and did not give up the fight until they won agreement from the segregationists to vote only on the first bill, leaving the rest for this week. Said Senator Gonzalez, after his colleagues passed the measure: "I intend to fight every one [of the other bills] to the last ditch...
...Hiss walked out of the Lewisburg (Pa.) federal penitentiary in December 1954-on parole after serving 44 months of a five-year sentence for perjury -he carried under his arm a package wrapped in Manila paper. Assuming that the package held his notes and papers, reporters asked if he intended to write a book. Replied Hiss: "I certainly intend to do some writing." Last fall the literary grapevine buzzed with the news that Manhattan Publisher Alfred Knopf had bought the Hiss manuscript, and the gossip columns predicted that it would be one of the sensations of the year...
Weiss and Shipman did not intend to scare anyone with the investigation, but their work has revealed an unsuspected "biological mechanism" that acts selectively on a single radioactive isotope, raising its concentration from an undetectable amount to the vicinity, at least, of the danger level. Biologists cannot be sure that other living organisms, both animals and plants, do not concentrate other radioactive isotopes in places where they may damage...