Word: intents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Motors stock, and is reluctant to give it up. But the Senate indicated it could not confirm his appointment if he held the stock since he, like Ilgenfritz, would be violating a law. Wilson is adamant. The money is his; he wants to keep it. Wilson seems intent on putting personal gain above government service. It matters not that General Motors has the Defense Department's largest contract, and that the law says that a government official cannot deal with a company he has an interest...
...small library in itself, including three novels by Isabel. Giving away books seemed to be a family weakness; Researcher Burns was given a cookbook before they left. But Isabel Wilder was hesitant about disclosing her brother's whereabouts, knowing that he had gone to Europe with the intent of secluding himself to write, and the only address she gave was American Express, Paris...
...Revolution should have been cut by at least 200 pages; at times, Author Ward seems intent on recording every musket shot between' 1775 and 1782, and when he gets lost in minor southern skirmishes, it does not -always seem certain that he will ever find his way to Yorktown. But the book is saved by Ward's gift for narrative and by his lucidity in presenting military problems. His perspective is not as broad as Freeman's in George Washington, but he is a better writer...
Take spring practice. The Princetonian's point that spring practice is a minor excrescence of bloated football, rather than a cause, may be true. Doubtlessly it was excised more as a simple gesture of intent than anything else. What is basic, though, and what the Princetonian ignores, is the importance of this symbolism. This ruling was a clear warning to all those concerned that bigger and better de-emphasis was soon to come...
...though, are based on blindness to a basic distinction: the difference between slanting and interpretation. To the uninitiated in this long-standing controversy, both appear interchangeable. They are not. Where slanting means conscious distortion in the interests of whatever axe one wants to grind, interpretation implies as pure an intent as straight recitation. Its purpose is not to-exclude relevant facts, but to construct as complete a picture of events as possible...