Word: intently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Richard Hieck was a mathematics student at a German university. Poor, ungainly, shyly incoherent, he was a good mathematician and ambitious to be a great one. So intent was he on the higher nature of his beloved science that it seemed right to him to be contemptuous of the easy chatter around him. He felt "an amazement, tempered with hatred, at the volubility of the human race, the infamous readiness with which people strung words together into half-articulate speech without having the slightest inkling of the essential meaning of things." Richard's mother was just beginning to enjoy...
...fast as her patriotic zeal and scientific ingenuity will permit. It is impossible to give much credence to the several statements and speeches issuing from the Foreign Office that the reason for the rearming is purely peaceful. The fact of the matter seems to be that Hitler is intent upon putting into effect several of the plans which readers of his book considered too fantastic ever to be seriously considered. Behind the armament race now under way in Germany, say the Soviets, is a projected Germanization of Central Europe. Though temporarily rebuffed by Danzig, Nazis are not likely...
...failed to report about $5,000,000 of his 1931 income; 2) he had cut his reported income of nearly $11,000,000 down to a taxable $2,000,000 chiefly through bogus losses achieved by fake stock transfers. Prime instance, of which the facts but not the intent were verified last week by Mr. Mellon's longtime confidential secretary, Howard M. Johnson...
...only mildly amused by the haremish antics, wondered why in his many operas Handel had been so content to write in the set Italian mold. Berlin pointed to the genius of the man who had been able to compose an oratorio like the Messiah. But Chicago was more intent upon Xerxes because of a newcomer to opera-Author Thornton Niven Wilder, who had been persuaded to transcribe the archaic translation and to direct the production. He not only did that but also put himself in the chorus to sing a few notes. Wilder's part came in the second...
...that quantity and quality cannot be duplicated at the price. Rather it is the 14 and 10-meal plans which cause dissatisfaction. Few men find either worth-while when the average price leaps to 50 cents in the first case, and to over 60 cents in the second. The intent of such a disproportionate scale of prices is obvious, to discourage meal-taking outside the Houses...