Word: intently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When one white-hot iron is on a good smith's anvil, another should be in the fire heating. Such is Franklin Roosevelt's way of working. So he worked last week. While all eyes were intent on the shower of sparks that his hammer set flying from the Supreme Court issue, the happy Presidential smith had another iron quietly buried in the coals...
Presumably the Student Union would like to have as broad and popular a student base as possible --such at least, was the original intent of the founders. To spread that base the organization must preserve a measure of dispassionate presentation of highly controversial subjects. A successful example of this type of discussion was the recent analysis of the seaman's strike by a labor organizer and a shipowner under Union auspices. It was, in a word, a public forum for free discussion...
...hawky face intent upon SEC's hardboiled young lawyers, 63-year-old Mr. Williams affably admitted las't week that he had "influence on the management" of North American Co., North American Light & Power, Pacific Gas & Electric, Northern Natural Gas, Detroit Edison, United Light & Power, American Water Works. After 1929 the astringent years which wiped out many a man of wealth merely shrank Mr. Williams' fortune from fabulous to big. He retained his 400-ft. yacht, the Warrior; his houses, his leisure for travels almost as continuous as those of his wife, his interest in oceanography which...
Gathered about large tables, with matches scratching and cigarette ashes rapidly filling trays, the five groups seemed curiously like bees intent on building up the honey of truth...
...soon able to influence Macfadden in nearly every action. He played upon Mr. Macfadden's love of publicity. ... It is my firm belief that Mr. Oursler conceived and conspired with Gaston B. Means and others, the plan to take and hold for ransom the Lindbergh child (without intent to kill or harm it), only for publicity for Oursler and Mr. Macfadden. . . . "I feel sure that it was Mr. Oursler's intention, with his great influence over Mr. Macfadden-which at times borders on hypnotism-to persuade Mr. Macfadden to pay any large or fabulous reward for the child...