Word: intentions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stringency of California guest statutes is paralleled by 16 other states: Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, South Dakota, Vermont, Washington, Wyoming. With some variations, these all restrict liability to cases of negligence, drunkenness or intent on the host's part. In other states there is no statutory restriction of a driver's liability to his guests. Kentucky's constitution forbids any such statute...
...function which their title suggests. Back of this generality lies the crucial fact that the young men of the Department must drive themselves unceasingly toward goals in research if they wish to be reappointed. The type of student attracted to Physics, even more than the general run, is seriously intent upon doing more than merely scratching the intellectual topsoil of his subject. It is equally obvious that the possibility of thorough cultivation fades away if the tutors' and instructors' energy is devoted almost exclusively to research...
...course, impossible to see the long black arm of Fascism on the regimented life in the famous parietal "two women" rule introduced last fall. The regulation, however, assumes a magnitude out of all proportion to its original intent...
...Nicoll begins with a disingenuous comparison of the present-day cinema with Elizabethan drama. What appears to be an account of our cinema, "a thing of almost mushroom growth, having a valid tradition which extended over no more than a few decades," whose managers "were intent only on what the box office receipts testified to be of immediate appeal," is a criticism equally applicable to the drama in Shakespeare's day. Having but placed us in a receptive state of mind, Mr. Nicoll proceeds to give an historical summary of the amazingly swift development of the cinema from its genesis...
...jury to have him imprisoned for a long term as only in jail would he be safe from vengeance by the foreign agents he had betrayed. In ten minutes the jury found McMahon guilty of "unlawfully and willfully presenting near the person of the King a pistol with intent to alarm His Majesty," and the judge sentenced him to one year in jail...