Word: intentions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old red brick building of the American Philosophical Society alongside Independence Hall, Philadelphia, gathered last week scores of U. S. erudites, to celebrate the Society's 203rd birthday, to read some twoscore learned papers. Founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1727, the Society's intent was "to promote useful knowledge.'' Last week's "useful knowledge" ranged from papers on The Geography of American Peppers to the Kinetics of Bioluminescent Reactions of Short Duration. High lights...
...reserve in California. Five months ago, on practically the same evidence used against Doheny, Fall was convicted of receiving a bribe (TIME, Nov. 11). Admitted by the defense in both cases was the transfer of money, the leasing of Elk Hills. For each jury to decide was the intent behind the giving and the taking of this...
Fall did not take the witness stand in his own defense. Perhaps because he let others try to establish his intent, his jury disbelieved his honesty, convicted him. Doheny, in his trial, took the stand, insisted his intent was good, that the money was only a friendly loan from which he expected no favors. Perhaps it was because he spoke for himself that the jury believed his honesty, freed...
...grounds that they afford the student an opportunity to see what is expected of him and also they permit the instructor to form some basis of judgment as to the ability of those in his course. Two sets of hour examinations during a time when studying is much more intent are justifiable on neither one of these accounts. The bulk of this unnecessary tedium is still in a very imminent future, but there is yet time to discard these abuses and to arrive at some more efficient and equitable arrangement of the second semester...
...Count Giuseppe Volpi Di Misurata, onetime (1925-28) Italian Minister of Finance. Although a shipping enterprise brought Count Volpi his first wealth, his chief interest now is not water to bear his vessels, but water to spin the turbines of the vast hydro-electric enterprises which he controls. Recently, intent upon the development of a gigantic European electric power system, he decided he needed U. S. capital. Last week he and his associates finished a far-reaching deal with Americans who had capital, were glad to spend it for power in Europe. The result was a new holding company, European...