Word: intentionally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tendency to enact uncertain laws seems to be increasing, and, what is still worse, the people tolerate it and there are but faint demands for improvement. Intent on some immediate exigency, and with slight consideration of the larger issues, we create autocratic power by giving administrative officials who can threaten indictment the opportunities of criminal statutes, without any appropriate definition of crime...
...take place; but having fore told evil, he was disappointed that it did not come. He was angry with himself and with God, and retired to brood in solitude over the failure of his prophecy. The moral, then, is that of the man who becomes so intent upon the means of achieving his object that he mistakes the means for the end, and by his passion for it blinds himself to the good he might have accomplished or perchance has actually attained...
...before the Wood Club last evening the Hon. W. W. Lufkin expressed himself as very hopeful of the issue of the General's campaign. Popular sentiment inclines toward Wood, he said, and that means success. The danger lies in the putting up of less important local sons, with the intent to defeat Wood on the first ballot at the National Convention...
...experience contributes to knowledge, but experience is not knowledge unless properly classified and put under control. At college the classics used to be the instruments of mental disciplining. Since they have been abandoned, to all intent and purpose, with the advent of the elective system, students are apt to make the mistake of thinking that all the secrets of the world are to be stored in their minds in four brief years (a task that ages of men have not accomplished), and with this wild hope they neglect to search themselves, see wherein they are weak where a course...