Word: intents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Korean cold last week, a group of intent men prowled through frontline aid stations asking questions, leafing through records, occasionally taking blood samples from G.I.s on litters. The men were no ordinary medics, but specialists from a 26-man Army-Navy-Air Force Cold Weather Injury Team. Their job is to study current treatments for frostbite and look for new ways of attacking...
Four-time World Champion Dick Button, an automatic qualifier, was there for an exhibition. But the real interest centered on the purposeful tussle among a group of teen-age girls, each intent on earning one of the three team placings, and hopeful of following in the Olympic skating steps of such glamour girls as Sonja Henie and Barbara Ann Scott.* After the required "school" figures, which count 60% toward the final standings, three of the girls stood head & shoulders above the rest of the field...
Alfred Kazin, on the other hand, questions the whole modern tendency to judge a style in terms of abstract standards of readability without asking what it means to the writer himself. He condemns the critical attitude "intent on getting the audience to understand quickly, rather than on encouraging the writer to have his full say." Kazin argues that to ban, by rule-of-thumb, Faulkner's "overblown" words and rhetorical phrasing would be to purge his writing of those elements most essential to his way of looking on the world. Faulkner could not write differently without thinking differently; therefore...
...inflexible and inviolate set of principles. "The law," Dean Pound said at the time-and still says-"is social engineering." But by the time he retired from Harvard (in 1947), Pound had discovered that some of his eager social engineers, discarding absolute values as the progressive educators had, seemed intent on scrapping the very foundation of U.S. jurisprudence along with its abuses...
C.C.N.Y. President Wright has announced his intent to retire as of September...