Word: intentional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When they came to disputed ballots ? there were some 16 different kinds of them ? the committee tried to interpret from the scrawls and scratchings the "intent" of the voter. Ultimately the committee decided, 10-1, that a slim majority of the voters had intended to vote for Steck, and it recommended to the Senate that Brookhart be unseated...
...chief argument against the committee's decision against the unseating of Brookhart was advanced by Senator Bingham and others, who said that Brookhart had been elected by the rules of Iowa governing ballots, that the Senate Committee had no right to go behind the Iowa law questing for the "intent" of the voter...
...strode toward his automobile. In the general excitement no one noticed a wild-eyed white-haired Irishwoman who sprang up beside the Premier's motor and thrust a small object at him with both hands. Her gesture was not that of a woman pointing a revolver. II Duce, intent upon his thoughts, did not notice the blue steel muzzle trained upon his temple. As a band struck up the Fascist hymn, "Giovinezza," he threw back his head and fixed his eyes on a staff flying the Italian flag. The bullet sped, but not into Signor Mussolini's brain...
Chang. Troops of the Manchurian Super-Tuchun, Chang Tso-lin, which were supposed to have helped the Wu troops attack Peking (TIME, April 12), were either "closing in on the city" (with intent unstated) ; or they were presumably passing the time by looting in the suburbs...
Garfield ("Gar") Wood of Detroit builds speedboats - faster speedboats every year bearing the name "Baby Gar" and a numeral. One day last week the Baby Gar VII slowed down to 40 miles an hour, with intent to turn around a buoy in the Havana open speedboat contest. Just ahead, the speedboat Miss Palm Beach was making the same turn. Splash went a wave slowing up Miss Palm Beach by a split second. Crash went Baby Gar VII into Miss Palm Beach, throwing overboard her own pilot, George Wood, brother of Gar. With her motors roaring, Baby Gar VII churned round...