Word: intention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bestselling Literary Guild choice, is now being filmed) but not a satisfactory novel. Apparently unabashed, they compound their great mischief by bracketing Miss Pinckney with Novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne. This tiresome little witch story, which flirts scrappily with the question of good & evil, is as far from the intent and purpose of Moralist Hawthorne as it is from literature-a considerable distance...
...question is examined from the aspect of economizing, since that is the avowed intent of the elimination, one finds only a small saving on the University budget, since the finances of the department are unique. The Institute of Geographical Exploration, which houses the Department, is privately owned, and its facilities, some of the finest for research in the University, are maintained and operated for University...
Prayer is the subject of the Cloud-the wordless, upthrusting prayer of the soul seeking direct experience of God. Such a soul, says the author, must approach God with a "meek, longing love" and a "naked intent unto God alone, and not to anything that He has made." Meditation, even upon the goodness of God, is distracting; he who would follow this path must put aside all thoughts and images and concentrate his whole being on a yearning hunger for God. "The first time that you try you will find only a darkness, as though it were a Cloud...
Except on restricted atomic information, whose disclosure "with the intent to injure the U.S." may be punished with anything from a $10,000 fine and ten years in prison, to death...
...moment later a curling snake began to take form on the WAAF. Tattooist Bell, intent on the job, paused to examine his canvas. "You've had a boil or something here," he said. "That's where my wife bit me," said Cecil Lambert. "He rammed that hussy in my mouth," said Mrs. Lambert. "Well, say goodbye to her now," said Charlie as he drew his needle over the WAAF's head...