Word: intents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...factories, its censorship and brownouts, its ration books and black markets. Partly, this reflected some of the lingering doubts inside Harry Truman's own Administration on the wisdom of a total commitment now to a garrison state. Partly, the apparent caution merely recognized the inevitable lag between intent and performance. With Charlie Wilson on the job, more rigors and more vigor could be expected. On performance, not alone on words, would the U.S. be able to judge how well Harry Truman and the rest of the nation understood the urgency of his own words: "The future of civilization depends...
Lampoon counsel Joseph E. Deguglielmo '29 pleaded guilty for his clients on the grounds that their action was a "technical violation of the law." He told the court that there was no intent to violate the law, and that the publication had gathered the cartoons in question from other magazines that had gone through the malls without trouble...
Many industrialists have no war orders at all. Many others, months after getting "letters of intent" of war contracts to come, still have no blueprints nor contracts needed to start production. Almost unanimously, businessmen agree that the trouble lies with the inability of the armed services to make up their minds what arms they want and how many...
...Coolidge, Sheepley, Bullfinich, and Abbott, planners of Lamont Library. Provost Buck stated yesterday that the proposed G.E. revolving stage room--which might be a natural showplace--was never intended as a theatre. In any case, the National Production Authority last month prohibited the erection of any new building with intent for "amusement, recreation, or entertainment purposes...
This film is somewhat ambiguous; for you cannot be sure whether it is comical or serious in its intent. It is certainly amusing when saucer-eyed Miss Davis rants, raves, and rollicks about her lavish apartment, tossing her long head of hair from left to right. Yet there seems to be a message beneath all the frivolity. The message is this: many of the people who get to the top on Broadway are rotten to the core. Their success is built on a foundation of selfishness and deceit...