Word: intently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...known to all U. S. track addicts. Last week 40,000 eyes focused on this talented trio of milers as they jogged around Princeton's sun-baked track in the first lap of the Amateur Athletic Union's 1,500-metre championship run. Suddenly a tiny group intent on the pole vault let out a roar. What had happened, spectator asked spectator? A husky, blond San Franciscan by the name of George Varoff, they learned, had just twisted over the bar at the incredible height of 14 ft., 6½ in. By the time the crowd leaned back...
...Here the uncontradicted evidence shows that the plaintiff is actuated by the bona fide intent to give each and every patron a valid option to buy a particular dog. If such patrons choose to flaunt [sic] his good intentions and buy options to line their pockets with unholy gains they cannot thereby make a criminal out of him. Were the rule otherwise, every cotton and commodity broker or dealer in the land would be in jail before nightfall. Does anyone suppose that the delicatessen dealer who buys an option on 500 bales of cotton ever intends to take delivery...
Last month in Manhattan 16 U. S. experts, who had been selected or had qualified in a preliminary tournament, assembled in the Hotel Astor to fight it out. Most intent spectators wrere moppets who paid 50? to study such intricate maneuvers as the King's gambit, the Alekhine defense. Busiest spectators were waiters who brought the players sandwiches, pitchers of milk or coffee. A scheduled exhibition between a 97-year-old player and a ic-year-old failed to take place when the oldster fell down in his home day before the match...
...such Christmas formal, the weekend of the Purdue, game, or in the Mask & Wig show rather than the fact that during exam weeks he ordinarily lost ten pounds and annexed a few grey hairs. It is the same with college grads in a studio conference. Confessing no serious intent, they strive to put as much entertaining frivolity as possible in the scenario-dramatizing college life never was meant to be a sad task...
Surgeon Erdmann got down to Dr. Brooks's liver. At that point in an operation on an ordinary patient Surgeon Erdmann habitually turns to his audience, explains his intent, waits for applause. Over Dr. Brooks there was no such dramatic byplay. The surgeon swiftly lanced the abscess. Pus spurted out. In his intensity Surgeon Erdmann cut his own finger twice. Then he and his surgical team of professors speedily cleaned up Dr. Brooks's abscess, inserted a rubber drain, closed the incision...