Word: pursuitence
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These changes offer a freedom of choice in the department which has not been possible before and permits undergraduates who intend, upon graduation, to enter an engineering school, to obtain preparation fitting them for the immediate pursuit of professional studies in any of the common branches of engineering...
...field pieces of surprising power. Mounted on a railway car a Chinese eight-inch gun dashed up and down. It scored few hits but barely missed the Japanese flagship and other warboats (some neutral) in the harbor. Zipping up, a lone Chinese airman in a lone U. S. Boeing pursuit plane rashly disputed Japanese mastery of the air, wounded a Japanese ace before he was shot down...
...Jones Jr, and with John D. Rockefeller, motor or golf with Edward of Wales. In the first week Mr. Crissey got himself invited to a newsmen's dinner at which President Hoover was guest. But he spent the rest of the year, which expired last week, in unsuccessful pursuit of Golfers Jones, Rockefeller, Edward of Wales...
...Schlesinger interests. Both Schlesingers like to be called by their initials. Brother M. A., 48, is short, stocky, black-haired, sits in an office in an old building near Times Square. Brother I. W., 58, is short, stocky, grey-haired, dashes about South Africa and Europe in pursuit of more business. Neither brother, enriched by films, ever had a photograph taken in the U. S. Brother M. A. thinks the diamond business may change all that...
Treasure Hunt. Few years ago the party game of "treasure hunt" (pursuit of a prize by discovery and correct interpretation of successive cryptic clues concealed throughout a house or over the countryside) was made more elaborate by using automobiles. Last week the Pylon Club of Philadelphia, organization of sportsman pilots, applied the game to the air. Sample clue: "Fly 5° south of east for approximately 8 min. where you will pick up a Catholic Church located between two golf courses. From this church, lay a course 25° east of north. . . . You will come to an airport where...