Word: intending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...oral exam would seem to obviate this, but, having given a man sixteen courses in four years, it is a little hard to admit that you haven't really taught him very much, and, consequently, the oral examiners have to set their sights fairly low if they don't intend to flunk out a large number of students...
...tutors, and all others who cram both then and now, are perfectly well supplied with grey matter. The trouble lies in the fact that they have in no way been intellectually stimulated by what Harvard has to offer in the classroom, and, since most of them do not intend to go into scholarly careers, they were and are quite content to get passing grades by cramming with or without professional help...
...hard-bitten George T. Baker, National's president, did not intend to keep his planes grounded, strike or not. He promptly fired his pilots for quitting, and filed notice that he would sue A.L.P.A. for $5,000,000 for "libel and slander." Last week he started replacing the strikers with non-union pilots. It was the first time an airline had tried to break a pilots' strike. By week's end, National claimed to have restored its service to 30% of normal...
...Ethel Leigh, told sadly of a delegation which had waited on Finance Minister Douglas Abbott in Ottawa. One delegate had said she had eight children, to which Abbott cracked: "You must do pretty well out of family allowances, eh?" The delegation was not amused. Said Mrs. Leigh: "We intend to increase pressure on the government until they realize that the people of Canada are serious in their protests. We mean business...
...Finnegan, said: "Now we certainly ought to get into the black." But staffers had their doubts. Round-the-clock papers have seldom worked well except in monopoly cities, where readers had no choice but to buy them morning & night. Newsmen once more asked an old question: did Marshall Field intend to stay in the newspaper business...