Word: intention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said Vandenberg, would brand U.S. policies as "capricious, unreliable and impotent." Its effect would be "to repeal by indirection" the whole intent of ECA. Said Vandenberg...
...desirability of broadening the base of college education for pre-medical students has been discussed. It is strongly urged that the student, if now intent on concentrating in science, discuss the problem further with both medical students and medical school authorities. Pre-medical students need not enmesh themselves totally in the time-consuming lecture rooms and laboratories of science to prepare themselves for medical school. The time for gaining a broad, liberal education is now. The later program for training in medicine should not be confused with your present College period. John Sonneland...
...readily admitted authorship of the recordings of his broadcasts which the prosecution played in court. He acknowledged all the counts against him, and he admitted intent to commit each individual act. "If I had it to do over again," he shouted, "I would do it again . . . They can hang me a thousand times, but I was not a traitor...
...composer's explicit directions, what's all the fuss about conducting? To the average listener, it might seem that a mechanical metronome would serve as well as a human one. There are other conscientious conductors, just as selflessly anxious as Toscanini to express the composer's intent. Why does Toscanini tower over them...
...would be hard to find, in this day of soggy prose and involuted criticism, another modern essayist who yields such constant pleasure. (She wrote, said E. M. Forster, with "inspired breathlessness.") Unlike so many American critics who seem intent on smothering their readers with erudition, Virginia Woolf wrote as if she were conversing with friends. To read her essays at one sitting is too much of a good thing; they then seem a bit boneless and soft, their smoothness too consistently stylized. But taken one at a time, as they were written to be read, they are rare works...