Word: intently
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...pool plan quickly came under critical fire. The I. C. C.'s intent, it was argued, was to ease the financial strain on roads that were weak because of their poor geographical position by having stronger and better placed lines contribute to their support during the emergency. While loans to pay fixed charges might not increase their actual debt, it did not bring them any closer to financial daylight. Critics also complained that the proceeds of any freight rate in- crease, under the A. of R. E.'s loan plan, would ultimately return to the strong carriers which...
...lounges along the Chamber's rear wall. She will purse her lips, frown as though deep in thought, halt now & then to fix some speaking Senator with a sharp, doubtful glance. From time to time she will address the Chair to interject some comment, acid-humorous in intent-for her husband was the Senate's conscientious sarcastigator. Then she will resume her soft pacing through the aisles, around the back, shoulders hunched, pondering profoundly, a little bitterly...
...many angels can dance on the head of a pin? How can a prosecutor prove intent to violate the Prohibition Amendment? Dancing on a legal pinhead for the past four years have been the manufacturers of fermentable grape concentrates. Federal agents have been able to count them, but not until last month were they able to threaten them...
...fact because its agents not only assured purchasers that "the product would come up to the standard of any pre-War wine." but went around to the customer's house to "service" or bottle the inevitably intoxicating after-product. Judge Otis went backward from result to cause to prove intent...
...Lowell himself has set at naught all rumors of his impending retirement. He has no intent to resign from the presidency of Harvard that the conclusion of the current academic year," the official statement declares; and we trust that this authentic word will give surcease at last from a condition which has long been embarrassing for all persons concerned. During the past two years a stream of rumors regarding President Lowell's intentions has flowed almost as constantly as its various currents have been confused and conflicting. How distasteful this activity has seemed to the president himself is now clearly...