Word: intentioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leaders is unable to forget that always in the history of U.S. business whatever went up had to come down again sooner or later, and that such periods of general prosperity as the present have always brought on a reaction in industry and trade. This conservative school is thus intent on finding out weak spots in U. S. business, and many of its members have thought the chief two are the construction industry and the stock market...
Since books of ethical intent are among the most popular at Princeton, there must be in other colleges a considerable amount of interest in the subject. That the place of science in life concerns the undergraduate is encouraging. If only a few retain this interest, America will benefit. To a nation accused of money madness, devotees of a less economic and more abstract subject than business bring a healthy balance. Mr. Young's few statistics disclose a desirable tendency...
Amid shouts of "Banzai!" "Hail, Illustrious One!" "Greetings!" the Prince Regent proceeded unruffled on his way. Later Ambassador Silva explained that he thought the first policeman had said "Come, please" instead of "Comes Prince." Since the policeman's gesture made his intent clear, this explanation was considered very lame.* The Japanese Government was rumored to have entered an official protest against the "unwarranted tempestuousness" of the Ambassador...
...internationally famed editor of Die Zukunft (The Future) "meets" most of his contemporaries with intent to flay them. It is the opinion of the pre-War U. S. Ambassador to Germany, James W. Gerard, who prefaces the book, that Harden's "power of delineating a personality is more than photographic," that "the hidden thoughts and secret emotions" of men "are as plain to him as if he pierced their being with a mental...
...Walker is apparently intent on throwing out partisanship from certain parts of the city government. His appointments for Police Commissioner, Health Commissioner, and Commissioner of Plants and Structures were considered to be made on the basis of qualifications, with politics only as a minor consideration. It was announced in advance that the Health Commissioner would not be appointed without the approval of the Academy of Medicine. In a part of his address which he did not read, Mayor Walker promised...