Word: intention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nurse's question made Rebecca West remember that the word "idiot" comes from a Greek root meaning a private person, and that idiocy is a "female defect" of women intent on leading their own lives...
...women who come out to Harvard in the late afternoons and evenings to take courses in Harvard and Sever Halls are, according to a report presented to President Conant last year by Dean Whitten, intent on improving their position in the world, through greater knowledge. That they succeed is shown by the fact that about 64 per cent go in the graduate schools, and 44 per cent are connected with education in general...
...PARACHUTES WERE USED ACCORDING TO DOCTRINE. ON TAKING OFF WITH THE FORWARD IMPETUS OF TRANSPORT PLANE [WHEN THE FOULING OCCURRED] EMERGENCY PARACHUTE BROKE LOOSE FROM . . . HARNESS AND STREAMED OUT THE EXTENT OF SHROUD LINE; SILK OF THE CHUTE REMAINED INTACT. I PULLED IN THIS CHUTE SEVERAL TIMES WITH THE INTENT OF USING IT; HOWEVER, BECAUSE OF BEING SUSPENDED ONLY BY ONE KNEE, I DID NOT OPEN IT. WITH AN ATTEMPTED USE THE OPENING SHOCK WOULD HAVE CATAPULTED ME OUT OF THE HARNESS. HAD TO KEEP MY KNEES LOCKED IN ORDER TO HANG ON. AIR PRESSURE TERRIFIC. KEPT SPINNING...
Investigating that battalion of goons and gorillas, the Senate Civil Liberties Committee in 1937 discovered that 37 of them had served time in the State reform atory; four had been sentenced for murder, 14 for manslaughter, three for malicious shooting with intent to kill; three had served in the Federal pen and 64 had been indicted locally, mostly for crimes of violence, ranging from robbery to murder...
...Send out preaching friars "intent not only on the saving of individual souls, but on the salvation of society...