Word: intentioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gave no hint of the fact that he was the husband of a woman who had been tried for murder and he himself had been tried for treason and both had survived their tribulations. Nor did those fascinating eyes of his betray that he had come to London desperately intent on speaking the English language with which he was none too familiar, and on negotiating a delicate diplomatic matter of the first importance. Bowing behind this strange figure appeared the diplomatic corpus of M. de Fleurian, the French Ambassador...
...regard to the inviolability of the Peace Treaties. "The German Government considers as self-evident that it is not meant to exclude for all future time the possibility of adapting existing treaties at the proper time to changed circumstances by way of peaceful agreement." Meaning that Germany was still intent upon securing modification of her boundary with Poland...
...compared to the states', cities', etc. 40%, and that today the Federal Government's expenditures are 33% to the states' and cities' 67%. "We are not making these comparisons in any vainglorious spirit. Like the rooster who found the big egg, our only intent is to be helpful. This rooster in his wanderings discovered an ostrich egg. He had visions of glorious omelets, generous fries and unlimited scrambles. With infinite labor he rolled his find back to his home pen. Calling his faithful flock together acid pointing to the big egg, he said: 'This...
Next day, Secretary Kellogg issued a statement "explaining" his conference with Ambassador Sheffield. It was couched in diplomatic language, which is to say it was just half as pressing in wording as it was in intent...
Although we have long ceased to believe that the moon has any connection with mental disease, the intent of the benediction is as vital as ever. In present day prose, it might be expressed thus--"You shall be free from illness in body or aberration in mind", and of those the second is the more important to the man himself, and of by far the greater moment to the rest of the world. If to err in thought is an evil, and to escape it a benefit to oneself and others, there is also a duty to keep...