Word: intentioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democrats as a whole are apparently intent on taking the latter attitude. The situation is complicated for the Administration by the fact that many of its supporters are likely to take the same stand. Already last week eleven Republican Senators got together at luncheon to root for the farmer in a way that forebodes their voting for the Haugen bill or something similar. Among the eleven were several whose votes the Administration cannot normally count on: Norbeck, Norris, Howell, Johnson, McMaster, Frazier. But among them were also several normal regulars: Gooding, Watson, Cummins, Deneen, McNary. The first three...
...Liberal Club educators fear that "too intent a search for the all-round boy may well lead to the development of a Harvard type". The very word "type" is antithetical to all-rounded-ness, implying some degree of one-sided development...
...wonder whether you intended to color your reference this week to "snubs" of General Wood by President Wilson with bias? Wilson had pretty good reasons for most of his appointments, and generally speaking he was intent on doing good. His prosecution of the War was hampered, as was Lincoln's, by smaller persons who wished to get the job under the control of the right political party. Although many Republicans worked hard and earnestly for victory under Wilson's leadership, some proposed a War Board, made up of Republicans, to take over the duties of the President and thus...
Although not conceived with cynical intent, the early dismissal from school is a reflection on the sense of proportion of the general public. A not unin fluential group has determined that America shall not slip down the lax road to ruin. The methods employed however, fit ill with the announced intention. Morality in the last analysis would appear to rest on the inclinations and customs of the people and not on the pointed paternalisms of authority...
Signor Mussolini, well nigh intoxicated by these splendors, climbed a steep and rickety ladder with intent to view in panorama the expanse of Leptis Magna, which slumbered beneath a protective layer of sand from about the Sixth Century until four years ago, when Finance Minister Count Volpi, then Governor of Tripoli, commenced its excavation...