Word: pursuitence
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Astronomy represents a field of science that should be attractive to the student in search of a scientific field of concentration that is not too highly specialized and possesses pre-eminently cultural values. The study of astronomy is the pursuit of knowledge for the sake of knowledge alone. Any yet who should not have the comforting satisfaction of knowing the true nature of the starry dome that confronts the eye of the casual observer on every clear night...
...Thurso's friend, Rick Armstrong, and hides successfully for a year. When Thurso tracks her down she goes off with him quickly, to save a meeting between, him and her lover. On the way home Thurso pretends to break down the car, waits in the desert for Armstrong's pursuit. But Armstrong does not pursue; all Thurso can kill is a lizard that rambles...
...aims of most expeditions, particularly those to South America, falsely pretentious and insincere. . . . It is impossible that the preposterous sums raised for some of these junkets can be expended licitly and I know that very rarely are the results achieved worth a twentieth of the money involved in their pursuit." Nor does he like the way "stunt" expeditions are worked up. Sarcastically he declares that they usually are led by a man of considerable, already acquired or potential newspaper reputation, who possesses several degrees from so-called "learned societies," invariably British. The favorite degrees, in the order named...
...America I find an unusual amount of sympathy for the criminal, which is because the law lagging too for behind the development of the social organization." There is so much tension between the law and individual behavior that thousands in pursuit of their natural course of life are automatically law-breakers. Law in any form, especially if it can be violated with impunity, brings out all the contrariness, of human nature. Your prohibition statutes are not nearly as effective as the Swedish measures, which I consider the best in the world, because they are based on a psychological understanding...
...supporting cast, however, does a highly creditable job. Russell Hicks, and Judge Brack, is a very grand and pleasing man of the world, whose pursuit of fair women he makes seem a splendid avocation. The professor, Dallas Anderson, and his aunt, Miss Doris Rich do first rate acting to make their ingenuousness more real than the villainy of the Judge or "Bedda Gabbler...