Word: intents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...absentee book problem could easily be remedied if Widener were more observant. Let the officials look some gray morning at the many students huffing up the slope to Lamont, intent on a single purpose: to escape Lamont's hourly-increasing 50 cent per book fine. That is real incentive...
Presiding Judge Walter P. Wellshjas called a panel of 90, from which a jury will be chosen. The accused is being defended by a state senator appointed by the court. Salade is also charged with assault with intent to murder and aggravated assault and battery...
...respect for "Big Magic." A spindly-legged youth, thought to be a hopeless deaf-mute, had suddenly started prophesying that "God would arrive in Kirawara at one o'clock." Attracted by the commotion, a British-led patrol of Kenya's African police came crashing through the jungle, intent on arresting the prophet as a mouthpiece of the Mau Mau, the terrorist secret society that threatens to turn Kenya Crown Colony into a colonial golgotha. "God will destroy all government chiefs," intoned the prophet defiantly. "Airplanes will fall to earth, and police bullets turn to water." Thus encouraged...
...unable to control some highly imaginative metaphors. What Winifred Hare means to imply in her caption, Song for Two People on Three Instruments, I will not venture to guess. Regardless of what she refers to, her piece creates a pleasant, colorful mood in fresh medieval tone. Considering her intent, this poem is the brightest...
...statement of intent, the group has said it is "...organized for the sole purpose of assisting parents, teachers, and librarians in the better selection of reading for juveniles..." It claims it will "...confines its attention solely to matter made available for juvenile reading," and it does...