Word: intent
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...rare occurrence. When every substitute who is sent into a game bears a message to the team, and when, as sometimes is the case, the only reason for a change of players is the opportunity for giving instructions to the quarterback, there is a very evident departure from the intent of the rule. Frequently, too, instructions are given as in baseball by the position of a coach or player on the bench. Given two teams of equal strength and equal equipment in the way of plays, and the modern football game thus becomes a contest of brains between two football...
...kill Death, but become embroiled in an altercation concerning the division of a pot a gold which they have found. In the dispute all are killed. The play ends with the specter of Death standing over the three, symbolic of the fate of those who seek gold with evil intent...
...grotesquely ludicrous figure develops a realization of the moral bearings of the human situation in which his creators, for the paying of old grudges, have placed him; and finally, love begetting in him a soul, he renounces his precarious existence for the sake of others, and foils the devilish intent of the which and the fiend who produced him. It will be seen at once that such a change of tone between the beginning and the end, and so unexpected a call on the sympathy of the audience from a figure which at the outset was not even animate, create...
...essential feature of any plan of co-operation consistent with the University's trusts, and with its unalterable regard for their spirit and intent, must be continuous joint action by the co-operating parties and an unbroken control by each--not a surrender of functions by either to the other. In so far as the committee of the Harvard Corporation has consented to any plan or tentative agreement as a basis for discussion and negotiation, it has been upon such an assumption. If any proposed agreement should be open to a fair construction inconsistent with the above assumption it would...
There was certainly no intent on anyone's part to be unfair and we are glad to believe that no suppression of debate has resulted...