Word: intention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ground that the more solemn a thing is the more unreal it is; 2) Some people object on the ground that the more solemn a thing is the more binding it is-the more it may commit the U. S. to an international course beyond the present intent...
Original and romantic intent was to run 1451 miles-up and across Kansas, south through high Oklahoma and higher Texas, across the Rio Grande, then southwest across Mexico, 1,451 miles to the Gulf of California. The line from Kansas City to Wichita, Kan. is still "under construction." From Wichita one can ride 735 miles to Alpine, Texas, without changing cars-on a local train...
...Richard Burden Haldane, first Viscount of Cloan, had died in 1913, a grateful Britain would have remembered him as a capable War Minister intent on army reorganization, as Lord High Chancellor and a Parliamentarian for 26 years...
Knowing persons recalled that all smart sea captains make a practice of announcing or denying the occurrence of sea marvels-such as "worst storms," "first whales of the season" or "largest icebergs"-with intent to cause the names of their ships to appear in public prints. Indulgent pressmen did not mind printing the ships which went a-Gulf-Streaming last week: Homeric & Majestic, Mauretania and Columbus...
Certain debased and penny-pinching non-smokers of the U.S. and other countries are known to ride brazenly in smoking cars, with intent to sniff tobacco fumes without expense and without twinge of conscience...