Word: pursuitence
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the circumstances effective pursuit was impossible. The Governor General's secretary sternly ordered Annobon's blacks to capture their white Sergeant but they failed to do so last week. In Madrid native Delegates of Guinea rushed wailing to Spanish officials. "Alas for our beloved Don Gustavo!" they cried with every outward sign of grief. "He was the best Governor we ever...
Sabrina has been taken to Europe. Sabrina Men are supposed to show the statue once or twice a year, announcing it beforehand so that students may turn out at night with torches. Sabrina is shown briefly in an automobile which speeds away at once, with other automobiles in hot pursuit. The even classes have held Sabrina more often than the odd, but the odds captured her in June 1925 and have held her since, showing her only once in public, at a baseball game in 1927. Last year Dwight Whitney Morrow Jr. showed Sabrina briefly at a class dinner...
Following the War, during which he flew with the famed 96th French Pursuit Squadron and directed training at Issoudun, "Casey" became test pilot for Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. As head (and founder) of Curtiss Exhibitions Co. he flew in practically all available races from 1919 to 1926, cleaned up so much prize money with his clipped-wing Oriole that for a time his department alone showed profits in the struggling Curtiss organization. Oldsters recall one race, at Dayton in 1924, which "Casey" failed to win. As usual he loaded as little fuel as necessary into his ship. This time...
Political activity in a college is at best a thankless pursuit, and it is made so by the indifference of the students. It is very disheartening to hear people announce that they will support Hoover "because it is a bad plan 'to swap horses in the middle of the stream", or that they will vote for Roosevelt "because he is a Democrat and we need a change", or that Thomas is to receive their support "because neither of the other men is any good anyway". Another typical student attitude is that politics are dishonest and are no place...
...mutineers who had to stay with the ship. The Bounty then returned to Tahiti, where the innocent sailors settled down to wait for a British vessel, while the mutineers sailed off, self-condemned never to see England again, to find an unknown island where they might be safe from pursuit...