Word: intention
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clerk's notes on the marble rostrum below John Garner's chair formed the only copy of the Deficiency Bill. Crumpled in Adams' pockets were the only explanations of the unprinted measure. Around his desk, like hawks hovering over a sidehill cornfield, were some 30 Senators intent on: 1) restoring the prevailing-wage principle to Relief, 2) softening the rule furloughing all WPA workers who have been on the rolls more than 18 months, 3) reviving the Federal Theatre project under WPA, 4) authorizing Farm Mortgage Corp. to refinance mortgages when normal farm income yields insufficient margin...
...from Randolph Field, the Army Air Corps training centre in Texas, missed the town at which he was instructed to land on a cross-country flight. He turned up with a novel excuse. Said he: his navigation was so accurate that he passed directly over the town, was so intent on scanning the terrain on both sides of his course that he never noticed...
According to the National Board of Review Magazine, "this is the best use of documentary films to record history, with historical intent, that we have seen. But it proves that history is not an abstract thing but something made by a an historian...
...gigantic laboratory experiment with language, Finnegans Wake is bound to exert an influence far beyond the circle of its immediate readers. Whether Joyce is eventually convicted of assaulting the King's English with intent to kill or whether he has really added a cubit to her stature, she will never be quite the same again...
Last week the theory that a pun can be the highest form of propaganda was again tried out on the U. S. people. A little-known but potent organization called the Council of State Governments adopted and broadcast Balkanization. Intent: to convey the idea that trade fences erected by & between the 48 hitherto United States are becoming as dangerous to U. S. economy as Balkan feuds have long been to the life of Europe...