Word: intention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will seem out of place to those who can not wholly accept the need for change. The physical features of his academic and his social life at College will be completely deformed. He will not find it the Harvard of his fathers. Yet he ought, if he is sincerely intent upon his months at Harvard, to find College his most provoking and maturing experience...
...minister to Christians in intent...
...Chicago street corner for ten minutes and gave out with song. (Kiepura hummed in somewhat uncharitable economy of his voice.) The melody was golden, but the take was only $2. "It wasn't bad," said Beattie afterwards, "considering the fact that people walking by on the street are intent on other things...
...Benet, Caldwell, Anderson, Frost. Robinson, Stevens, many others. Say the editors: "It is safe to say that from no other land than ours, within the limits of time we set ourselves, could there have been gathered together a body of writing so various and so vigorous, so serious in intent and so accomplished in craft...
...intent of the Senate amendment is to save the lives of men under 20, but it will not necessarily work that way: 1) Army death rate in the U.S. is 2.15 per thousand, but in Bermuda it is only half that, in Iceland only 1.62; 2) an 18-year-old could not go to Puerto Rico where the principal hazard is sunburn, but with only one day in the Army he could go into action against Japs in Alaska...