Word: intently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difficulty seems to lie more with the colleges than with the graduate schools. Many men who are intent on an eventual course of graduate study work hard while in college, but find themselves insufficiently prepared to carry on advanced research. The standards of the best graduate schools are high enough at present to ascertain that if a man can fulfill them, he should be able to make his way. It is evident that the laxity of the lower schools must be corrected first. Raising the requirements of the graduate schools would be only a vain attempt to rectify errors caused...
...Mere failure to file an income tax does not constitute 'attempt' to evade or defeat the tax. ... To convict you must find beyond reasonable doubt that there was intent to defraud and also some act done in furtherance of that intent...
...Instructions came in the form of warnings against dissolving the brick in a gallon of water, adding sugar, shaking daily and decanting after three weeks. Unless the buyer eschewed these processes, 13%, wine would be produced. Vino Sano's "Don'ts" were designed to prove that the intent of each sale was not to violate...
...Bright, N. J., fishermen Harry Munson and George Swenson beheld what few men have seen -a fight to death between a shark and a swordfish. Usually a shark will vanish at sight of its mortal enemy with the sharp-bladed nose, but this shark "about 25 feet long," was intent on stealing a big bluefish that the men were pulling in. Shooting out of the blue deep came the swordfish. The shark turned to flee but it was too late. For 35 minutes the sea was lashed into bloody froth. Then all was calm and the shark, his long white...
...their developed films showed views of fortifications. Both Herndon & Pangborn protested they had not recognized a fort if they saw one, but Japanese espionage laws are strict: They could be fined $1,500 or put in prison for three years. Civil officials, believing in the flyers' innocence of intent, were all for. leniency. But the army openly favored a prison term. It appeared that the investigation might go on for many more days...