Word: intention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...compromise. Vainly Mr. Stimson tried to show them that submarines were useless against battleships, that they served only as weapons of uncivilized warfare against unarmed merchantmen. Possibly the Japanese interpreter failed to translate the full vigor of the Secretary's arguments; perhaps the Japanese delegates were really intent on holding their position on submarines. In any event no agreement was reached...
...Your announcement is a surrender to these grain people . . . a disclaimer of any intention of a desire to be helpful to cooperative associations and a determination to disregard both the spirit and intent of the law. . . . If the policy of the board is to be determined in secret meetings with the speculative interests, the board is functioning in the interest of the grain people and in opposition to the farmers...
...Colonies Dr. T. Drummond Shiels. The women, said Dr. Shiels, were Negresses. They had attacked some British officers. Troops rushing to the rescue of their superiors received the order "Hold your fire, men!" and did so until the Negresses approached, slapped their faces, laid hands upon their rifles with intent to snatch them, whereupon British chivalry cracked and the shooting down of women began...
...much-abused phrase, "in the interests of science", which prompts that last highball and the extra pressure on the accelerator rounding Death Curve is being employed by scientific sealots at Columbia as justification for an epochal experiment. Were it not for their undoubtedly serious intent, this trial of the savants would degenerate into more than an attempt at the world's coffee-drinking championship, for they plan to pour at least one thousand cups of coffee into three dozen otherwise normal young men and women from the university, questioning them after each cup until their ultimate capacity is reached...
...York's a pretty fine city though, don't you think?" The question was put with intent to lead...