Word: intentionally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other bright features of the Harvard scene, this ambitious system of enlightened subsidy was revived without overall re-examination. A close analysis of what the scholarships mean to do in the critical days beyond the G.I. Bill might best set out from President Conant's statement of intent: "When you consider that probably three-quarters of the families of this country receive an annual income of $2500 or less, the inadequacies of small scholarships amounting to a quarter or a half of the total expense becomes manifest." If the National Scholarships are to continue to fill the role...
...employer is trying to avoid the intent of the Fair Labor Standards Act by "encouraging" workers to put in time for which there is no remuneration, he is a fair target for civil or criminal legal action. But this is not the case in most of the $5,000,000,000 worth of suits now pending. Portal-to portal pay was something which had not occurred to either employer or employee. When the Mount Clemens Case opened a legal loophole for extracting wages above the amount agreed upon in good faith, labor, en masse, leaped to widen...
...residents of Massachusetts and putting further admissions on a strict quota basis. The bill was designed to encourage precisely this action. Its framers feel that local boys and girls are being denied their fair share of the state's admittedly outstanding educational opportunities. Failing to attain its primary intent, the bill would secure to the state a few millions of additional revenue as consolation for its flouted sovereignty...
...meetings, however, will depend upon the presence throughout the world of such civic-minded communities as Cleveland, whose citizens speak English and 40 other languages. The 20,000 Clevelanders who came to hear the Institute's 23 speakers represented all those groups. As an audience, they were earnest, intent, and responsive. They listened hard, pulled for the speakers who were not at home with the English language, and, significantly, stayed straight through to the end of each session...
...program ended with the truly professional singing of a snappy M.R.A. international mixed chorus. All around me were people smiling pleasantly, and one thought of words like inspired, intent, open-faced, solid, energetic, enthusiastic...