Word: intentioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...less prodigious. Pyramidal in shape, it rises tier on tier, each tier a gallery ornamented with sculpture and symbolic devices in unparalleled profusion. The pilgrim, ascending by these galleries, traverses a distance of three miles past carvings which constitute a pictorial Bible of the late or "Mahayana" creed. The intent is that the pious shall climb from temporal vulgarities-depicted with unblushing naturalism in the lower galleries-to ever higher religious concepts which are exampled by a symbolism progressively refined, as the worshiper toils upward. When the supreme dagoba is reached and entered a crude and only half-hewn statue...
Usually the vast court of the John Wanamaker Store in Philadelphia is thronged with scuffling folk intent on rummaging through counters of merchandise in search of bargains. One night last week a greater crowd than ever before crammed its way into this pillared space, now swept of every vestige of merchandise. They had come to hear a concert, attend a reception given by Rodman Wanamaker in honor of Thaddeus Rich, concert master of the Philadelphia Orchestra. From the first grand chord of the organ prelude to the last lingering vibration of Soloist Rich's violin the audience were silent...
Though born to a family of musical traditions (his great grandfather made the first pipe-organ west of the Alleghenies) and intent upon studying to qualify as organist of the Pittsburgh Presbyterian Church, Mr. Cadman, as a lad, entered the employ of the Carnegie Steel Co., worked as messenger boy under Charles M. Schwab. Into the office he dragged couplings, hung them on a frame, created a metallophone after a fashion. Thus equipped, he be guiled the tedious hours of clerks and bookkeepers with lilting, popular tunes. During these "office days," the melodies kept rippling through his head, took embryonic...
Last spring the problem of reducing competition was attacked by another method. The Union & United Tobacco Corporation was formed to manufacture tobacco products and to distribute them wholesale. But the purpose back of this incorporation, the panoramic intent, associates of Charles A. Whelan explained only last week...
...continue residence at Washington and this Under-Secretaryship was the first opportunity which presented itself; perhaps he is grooming himself to be a future Secretary of the Treasury. But Mr. Mellon, in announcing Mr. Mills's appointment, attempted to forestall rumor by a firm denial of any intent to resign...