Word: intention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the present volume, a sequel, the author shows himself less novelist than professor intent upon the interesting phenomenon of the second generation. He contrasts Beret, reluctant Norwegian immigrant of the earlier volume, with Beret's son Peder, who is impatient with the language, religion and customs of his mother's country. Peder insists upon lessons in English, Bible in English, chatter in English with the Irish neighbors a mile or so. down the road. Then suddenly, fearfully, Beret knows Peder loves the Irish neighbor's daughter. Beret's fury is terrific her sudden capitulation beautiful...
Attack. For the first few days, Sir Joseph was constantly in the witness box. First salvo for the prosecution was Lawyer Miller's statement of intent: "We hope to show that Sir Joseph has built up an organization which is the finest of its kind in the world and has a strangle hold on the picture business. . . . He has established such contacts with the richest clientele in the world that scarcely anyone else can sell an oil painting. He has built up such a business that when he condemns that picture it is dead, and he knows...
President-Elect Hoover was involved last week in the time-limit phase of the cruiser question. Chairman Fred Britten (Ill.) of the House Naval Affairs Committee, biggest of the big-navy group, issued a statement, presumably with intent to influence the Senate's action on the time-limit provision...
...more important question of what intellectual end such a melting pot will serve still remains to be answered. It will patently no more foster an atmosphere of common intellectual effort than the present system, since the intent is to prevent any large concentration of men working on the same subjects. We must then assume that diversity of intellectual appreciation, like breadth of social experience, is the object of the House plan. In other words it is expected that an art student, a mathematician, a football player, and a CRIMSON editor will gather informally in the new Houses and each impart...
...course which he proposes to pursue. Thus President Thomas Woodrow Wilson did not know whether or not he was negotiating at Paris a treaty which would be approved by Congress. But in France it is otherwise. There, Parliament can be asked to register approval or disapproval in advance. With intent to ask such a question, Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré, renowned "Lion of Lorraine," went solemnly last week before the Chamber of Deputies...