Word: pursuitence
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dissatisfaction with the prevailing worship of material success that marked the last few years of the nineteenth century. The young idealist felt himself a spirit thrown by fate into an environment to which he did not belong. . . . Holding himself aloof from the world of reality, the poet went in pursuit of a vague and fugitive phantom of absolute beauty...
...hunting season on utility and financial magnates, never enjoying a closed season to be sure but comparatively quiescent since Wiggin, Chase et al were salted away last year, seems to be enjoying another period when game is plentiful. Samuel Insull, recently trapped after a long pursuit by Federal authorities, has now been followed by O. P. van Sweringen as prey to the righteous. Unlike the Insull case, which is virtually over with the exception of refunding losses to the suckers and casting Insull into durance vile, the van Sweringen affair may yet have repercussions which will make the Federal authorities...
Daily, this alphabetical society has been seeking to confound its enemies with some new morsel of statistics and research. Most of them pass over out poor undergraduate domes. But the latest and most interesting item deserves immediate pursuit by every expert in research, and all the statistics which Harvard University can muster to its defence...
...been established or remodeled in accordance with his plans. In the College freedom of choice in study has replaced in enforced uniformity. The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences has been created, and has commended itself to students and scholars here and abroad. In the Divinity School the pursuit of truth has been freed from the trammels of sect. To the present improved methods of instruction in medicine he has contributed more than any other person in America. Guided by the man of his choice, the Law School has become the accepted model for the teaching of the Common...
...sprinted into the line of fire. Tejeda dodged and twisted from door to pillar. The 25 dodged and twisted with him. Bang, bang! Nicks suddenly appeared in the plaster wall beside Tejeda who ducked back. Shouting, running, stopping and fir ing, the 100 "regulars" came on in fierce pursuit. But always a dodging, criss crossing screen of men ran between them and Tejeda. The town of Nicolas Romero was suddenly the field for a sinister football game. Tejeda's life was the ball and he carried it for all he was worth. His 25 stalwarts were the interference, doing...