Word: intention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...serious and intent student, she was discussing rock specimens in the laboratory with her professor one day when a serious, intent young man walked in. Said the professor: "Miss Henry thinks this rock belongs to the precarboniferous...
...main the conflict is between the Black theory, which can be oversimplified as the intent of Congress should prevail as the will of the people, and the Frankfurter line, which is that courts and ad ministrative bodies (i.e., the law) are supreme. In this case the Black-Douglas line prevailed again, in that the Court dealt itself out as the final arbiter of an economic controversy, leaving the solution of such things to a due process of society...
...battle for his caste-the Junkers-who were the army's heart, mind and will power. By a subterfuge, the caste escaped the ignominy of defeat in World War I ("We were stabbed in the back," the Junkers said). But now no subterfuge would help. For the Allied intent was clear: "The twin roots of all our evils-Nazi tyranny and Prussian militarism-must be extirpated. Until this is achieved there are no sacrifices that we will not make, no length in violence to which we will...
...opening night, Mike Todd, as much a man of the theatre as Noel Coward or George M. Cohan, seemed intent on finding that elusive something that will turn a rambling Hayride into a non-stop express for Broadway's Hall of Fame. Condensation and a half-hour's worth of sock comedy material should do the trick...
Protestant action on the Moscow Declaration was almost a challenge. Fortnight ago the Roman Catholic hierarchy of the U.S. told their 23,000,000 U.S. Catholics that they saw little reason to rejoice at the Moscow Declaration (TIME, Nov. 27). The pact left "an uneasiness in minds intent on peace with justice to all," a fear that "compromises on the ideals of the Atlantic Charter are in prospect...