Word: intention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dartmouth may sprint to a record in the 50 yard dash. He has done 9.7 in the 100 and Coach Harry Hillman says he is the best sprinter the New Hampshire hills have seen in ten years. Though Bob Owen of Yale and Paul Robinson of Cornell will be intent on scalping the Indian, Charlie Smith and Don Donahue may come in for part of the spoils...
...Nazis, intent on maintaining their advantage, proclaimed (TIME, Jan. 1) that: "Beyond the limits of bourgeois laws and customs, which ordinarily are probably necessary, it can become an exalted task even outside wedlock for German women and girls of good blood to become -not frivolously but imbued with deepest moral concern-mothers of children begotten by soldiers moving to the front without knowing whether they will return or die for the Fatherland...
...elite game of racquets, nobody seriously disputes the U. S. supremacy of 27-year-old, London-born Robert Grant III (Eton-Harvard-Wall Street). A dark, intent-eyed broker with shoulders that slope as ominously as Joe Louis', Grant can drive a racquets ball faster and more tellingly than any other racqueteer. In the last three years he has cornered the vaunted Tuxedo Gold Racquet, U. S. amateur and open, Canadian singles and both U. S. and Canadian doubles (with Clarence C. Pell Jr.). U. S. racqueteers predict that Grant will handily win the world's open championship...
Sailing with the avowed intent to evaluate the discoverer Christopher Columbus as a navigator and sailor, the expedition for the last five months has been following his exploring courses into the Carribbean Sea and along the coast of South and Central America...
...happened, and when they are heaped together they prove pretty conclusively that Harvard can act decisively once it puts its mind to it. New rules were set up against employment of students by tutoring schools, and then in double-quick time the new Supervisors' Bureau was established with the intent that one day it would completely do away with all the skull-duggery in the Square. Contact was established with parents and with prep schools in order that Freshmen might be warned away from wolves and vipers and their ilk. Freshmen were required to hand in their History I notes...