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Word: intently (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hoped that the future will see a complete revision of the present methods of dealing with dropped Freshmen, there should be some immediate change in their opportunities for study. Even though not all of them would take advantage of such an opportunity, there are many who are seriously intent on becoming regular sophomores. Certainly the plan would be an excellent and simple way of helping those who are willing to be helped...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAN WITHOUT A LIBRARY | 12/2/1932 | See Source »

...over the tutors watches the CRIMSON; with that mingled love and chastisement which we have been taught to consider characteristic only of a somewhat higher power. Last week the tutors were rebuked for their table-manners. Today they are the objects of a pity which, however sublime in its intent, may seem a trifle ridiculous when conferred without intelligence. Clearly, if any tutor be heard to cry, "what must I do to be saved?" we must reply, "Inquire of the CRIMSON." Alston H. Chase...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Retort Courteous | 11/15/1932 | See Source »

...ordinary trainwreck, but one accompanied by a fierce armed attack in the dead of night, with the bandits intent on kidnapping, plunder and murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANCHUKUO: No Ordinary Wreck | 9/26/1932 | See Source »

...interest in the famed Hopi Snake Dance was whetted by the sound of muffled drum beats as they neared the grey mud-&-stone village of Hotevilla. But the Hopi, who had heard those drum beats all night, paid little heed to visitors. Their minds behind weirdly painted faces were intent on a thing savage, religious and remote. Their eyes were upon the parched earth to which they must bring rain. Ceremony- Throughout the dry Arizona summer Hopi medicine men keep one eye on the ground, the other on the sky. In August when the corn and melon vines begin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Snakes & Rain | 9/5/1932 | See Source »

...right to bind the Democratic House. Clerk Trimble, as the House's hired man, wrestled with the question. Publicity, he knew, would incense the White House; no publicity might cost him his job. Armed with a legal opinion from his son, he decided that it was the "intent" of Congress that R. F. C. reports should be open to the public and that he would therefore open them, regardless of the consequences. Last week's R. F. C. report, covering a ten-day period (July 21-31), contained no sensations. R. F. C. had made 437 loans totaling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Light on Loans | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

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