Word: intention
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When, in the fall of 1936, the Graduate School of Education launched its program for the new degree of Master of Arts in Teaching, it took a positive step in the direction of elevating secondary school teaching standards. No one may justly disparage the intent of the school that "scholarship may be united with professional understanding and with personal fitness for teaching." But as a student in the school since the inauguration of the new program, I have a few criticisms and suggestions to offer...
...best-qualified experts on artists* materials in the U. S. Many artists credit 40-year-old Ralph Mayer with reviving tempera painting almost singlehanded through his course on it at Manhattan's Art Students' League in 1931. A chemical engineer and painter, black-haired, intent Mr. Mayer developed for subway muralists two new methods which last week appeared successful...
...daughter is deserted in pregnancy by her shallow, pedantic lover, only the mother is able to pierce the hollow censure of society, and acquit her of guilt. The father is brutalized. He is transformed from a lazy, ne'er-do-well, ignorant, strutting braggart to a despicably small man intent upon upholding his supposititious good name. Having run the family into crushing debt on the strength of an inheritance that was never to be realized, he curses out his daughter in the roundest of terms, and goes out to get drunk for the last time...
...year's Old Glory Sale came European agents who effected the biggest exodus of U. S. harness horses since the turn of the Century. To Austria, Germany, France and Italy went 58 horses of the finest blood lines in the U. S. Italy was the biggest buyer, obviously intent on getting the finest stock at any price. The reason was not merely the immense popularity of harness racing in Italy. Ringside gossip had it that Italian experiences in Ethiopia and Spain, plus the European oil crisis have made it highly necessary that Mussolini modify his motorization plans...
Having sold lanital patents to German, English, French and Belgian concerns, Snia Viscosa, which always has been internationally minded, is now intent on moving into the U. S., plans to begin by sending its fibres to the U. S., eventually will build U. S. factories. U. S. representatives are the big New York firm of Meyer & Marks Yarn Co. Inc., whose president, Jack W. Block, likes to assert that lanital will do to the wool business what rayon had done to the silk. U. S. woolmen, absorbed with more immediate troubles (see p. 75) last week produced no retort...