Word: pursuitence
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inventor Macneil began his pursuit of infra-red rays as an undergraduate at the University of Michigan. During the War he considered how to apply his researches to a nautical instrument, fixed on the sextant. Because no U. S. workmen could make the delicate apparatus required, he went to Holland. In February 1931 he guided the Mauretania across the Atlantic with his thermoelectric sextant, which was later adopted by the British Admiralty. Last week he announced he was ready to begin commercial production. A ship will need but one thermoelectric sextant which will cost about $2,000 instead...
...strong, lithe, handsome, each branded with the mark of Don Ernesto Blanco. They looked around, uncertain what to do, until from the crowd of youths came a yell: "Hah! Hah! . . . Toro!" The bulls lowered their heads, charged the crowd. The crowd took to its heels, the bulls stampeding in pursuit...
...officials were not exactly bluffing, but they put forward their full demand as a start in the conversations, and to their surprise Mr. Baldwin said he thought the terms were fair, and accepted them. If all business was as easy as that there would be no joy in its pursuit. But this crude job, jocularly called a 'settlement,' was to have a disastrous effect upon the whole further course of negotiations on international War-debts. The United States could not easily let off other countries with more favorable terms than she had exacted from...
...Cousin Anna, against his protest, to their home. Anna's free-&-easy behavior soon makes Lucy forget her dreams of hospitality. She dreams of her husband's possible infidelity instead. Her perverse dread alienates him. When Lucy drives Anna from the house he goes with her. In the ensuing pursuit he is drowned...
...Cohens when the son Melville becomes a theme song writer. The Kellys, as nouveaux riches, fancy themselves disgraced by the Cohens, who follow them to Hollywood. Miss Edna May Oliver could do this to perfection but the Kellys merely blunder through in their usual way, while Kitty, in the pursuit of her art, makes burlesque melodramas for which there is no apparent reason except to prove that almost any moving picture could be worse than...