Word: intentions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Still intent on a grand slam, the curley-haired man of Pemberton Square struck from the tally the score of Lieutenant Governor Youngman. The Lieutenant-Governor withdrew from the game gracefully, merely acknowledging that he is not in the mayor's class. The mayor will therefore be able to drink his Japanese tea without a Kibitzer...
Secondly, it should be a memorial to all Harvard men who died in the war, regardless of what side they fought upon. Every inscription should be so worded as to emphasize not the conventional heroics about honor and glory, but the spirit of sacrifice and the pacific intent of those who died fighting, paradoxical though it be. Thus the chapel could be the very embodiment of the spirit of universality, a transcending of cheap nationalism...
Price War. Gloom stalked through Leipzig as exhibitors at the Fair cut prices (and each others' throats) without stimulating any impressive volume of sales. Canny foreign buyers, interviewed by the Leipzig press, admitted grudgingly, "Prices are a little lower," held back their orders with evident intent to jump in when prices touched bottom...
Last week the Court of Appeals in Manhattan reversed a lower court's decision that Touche, Niven & Co. are liable for an employe's negligence. However, the Court held that if the audit said the figures were true, the accountants are guilty of deceit regardless of intent. Other accountants breathed more easily, realizing they could continue to protect themselves in audits by such buffers as "We believe." . . . "In our opinion...
Last week Editor Shaw explained the Committee's task to the New Hampshire Weekly Publishers' Association, meeting in Boston. Said he: "It is not [our] intent to oppose legislation but to accentuate it through the medium of accurate figures on what we get for what we spend. . . . The Committee does not contemplate any time-clock study to determine whether Bill Jones earns his pay spreading tar in highway repair work or whether a department head is worth the salary . . . paid by the State. It has a much broader plan." The assembled publishers cross-examined Editor Shaw for more...