Word: intentions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first. It forbade aliens on U. S. soil as well as U. S. citizens to take armed service with a belligerent. Others of its 17 rules forbade belligerent ships-of-war to use U. S. harbors for anything more than hurried (24 hour) ports of call, to roam with intent to fight in U. S. waters, to chase one another in & out of American ports, to take on at U. S. docks more fuel than enough to get them to their countries' nearest ports, or to repair damage caused by battle...
...price of shares from 12½ shillings ($2.87) to 35 shillings ($8.05) in three weeks. Accustomed to an average dollar annual dividend on their 429,300 shares, stockholders will now have to trust that Yokohama Specie Bank will repay their capital in the next four years. But with Japan intent on squeezing all Occidental enterprises out of Asia, and particularly keen to get gold for her nearly empty war chest, this looked like a far better risk than a gold mine in Korea...
...problem is not sufficiently abstruse to require the services of a logician. A mere student of semasiology will recognize the employment of the word accident in this case as being entirely dependent upon the motive and intent of the golfer. . . . The result of the manner in which he uses his clubs is one of perfection or imperfection, not chance...
...strikes the ball with the force and angle which you intended, hits the green short of the flag and rolls into the cup, it did so in obedience to certain laws of physics which you set into action. Every molecule was doing its duty. This was your motive and intent...
...Story. Miss Lillie Ravenel was a rebel. At 19 she was tall, slender, graceful, blushed easily and had a way of looking at a young man with her blue eyes so lively and intent that each thought she was especially interested in himself. And, says De Forest, this "was frequently not altogether a mistake." Miss Ravenel was born in New Orleans, loved it, admired it, complained that she was lonely as a mouse in a trap in the New Boston House in New England, whither her father carried her when Louisiana seceded. New Englanders, she said, were right poky...