Word: pursuit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quiet afternoon 104 years ago, browsers in the British Museum were "attracted from their agreeable pursuit," as the London Times reported, "by hearing a loud crash, and on hastening to ascertain the cause they found that which was the 'admired of all admirers' . . . scattered in fragments...
...Hidden Flaws. But none of this altered the grey toil of entering item 6, and subtracting line 2 from line 1, or eased the dogged pursuit of deductions. The task of home accountancy seemed to grow more harassing every year. And in mid-March, the man who had preferred not to think how much money the government was getting out of his check every week, had to face up to the spectacle of his tax total and sign his name beneath...
Behind the pink, tubby façade of rich Clendenin John Ryan, the soul of the selfless public servant throbbed. Unlike many another son of privilege, he did not collect show girls; he devoted himself to business and the sober pursuit of turning rascals out of government...
...function of government," Kennedy said, "is to do for the people what they cannot do themselves. General welfare is separate from the pursuit of private interests." He expressed the opinion that free enterprise should not be lightly cast aside but that public welfare cannot be increased with government intervention...
Loretta Young is a Park Avenue widow who finds herself temporarily broke. She gets a scholarship to Pointer College, where she joins her pretty daughter (Betty Lynn) in pursuit of higher education and a youngish English professor (Van Johnson). With the help of the "Kissing Oak" and other standard campus props, Mother gets her man, and Betty gets compensation in the form of a stripling...