Word: intentionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stop any flagrant abuses and to maintain good order. In a school as large and diverse as Harvard, an honor code could not replace the need for some degree of outside control. Nevertheless, proctors should show more respect for the student as a mature individual, who is not intent on "beating the system," but simply wants a more relaxed and less regimented examination room...
...period at the Garden last night, the varsity hockey team seemed intent on losing its Beanpot title in the opening round of the annual tourney...
...Monthly, with all its serious intent, seemed a permanent fixture at Harvard, and such writers as George Santayana and John Dos Passos were attracted to its ranks. Suddenly, however, in 1917, the Monthly was forced to declare bankruptcy, and its career was ended after over forty years of publication. Ironically, years later it was discovered that the magazine had a thousand dollars to its credit, but the last Monthly editor had long since graduated and no attempt was made to resurrect...
...relaxation, the majority think in terms of strenuous, competitive recreation, such as golf. But the trouble with such sports is that businessmen tend to overexert and fret over their performance. And in recent years the golf course has become a kind of office with trees, where businessmen are as intent on arranging ways of raising their incomes as on lowering their scores. Says Norman Livermore Jr., California lumber-firm executive and onetime athlete: '"The great appeal of sports like golf, tennis and skeetshooting is that you can mark down your score on a card and have something to show...
Quiz Kid. In Burnaby, B.C., charged with intent to commit a crime after he was caught sitting in his car in front of a bank with the plates covered and the motor running, John A. Martin, 50, explained to police: he wore dark glasses because he suffered from snow blindness, wore a handkerchief-mask to protect his throat, had a loaded .22 rifle in the car because he had been robbed of $300 three weeks before...