Word: pursuitence
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lectures developed the most important general aspect of his theory, Wright devotes the remaining four to more specific matters. An interesting chapter on the death of the cornice, which long since outlived its usefulness, is followed by a lecture setting forth Wright's revolutionary notions relative to his favorite pursuit--domestic architecture. Subsequently we encounter unorthodox views upon the skyscraper--Wright regards it as "the mechanical conflict of machine resources"--and a somewhat idyllic picture of the of the ruralized city of the future as made possible by the advance of teletransmission in its various forms...
...wrote of the mind in groping, desperate pursuit of the unattainable; of the renunciation of pursuit for a life of vicarious excitment; of multitudinous selves, like a multitude of cells, forming a city's enormous brain; of the mystery of personal identity: of the impossibility of escape from the ego. Arid dangerous themes for poetry, certainly, but in elaborating them Aiken composed an iridescent epic of our inner world...
...manner, blond, well set up, he made precedent last autumn by getting himself elected to the State's chief legal post. Not only is he one of the youngest (37) to hold the office, but the first Democrat in eight years. In 1918 he emerged from the Army a pursuit pilot, although he never got to France. While working for J. P. Morgan & Co., he studied law at night school, was not admitted to the bar until four years ago. His prominence in American Legion affairs has greatly benefited him politically...
Farewell. Flying a small pursuit plane at Fort Stotsenburg, P. I., Lieut. Marvin M. Burnside chased after a great twin-motored bomber which had just taken off, to wave "goodbye" to its pilot, his close friend Lieut. Marion Huggins. He had nearly overtaken the bomber when suddenly the backwash of its propellers hit the little plane, flung it about like a leaf, dashed it to the ground. Unaware of the occurrence, Lieut. Huggins flew on to Nichols Field, Manila, there learned that his friend was dead...
...gentlemanly institutions hereabout have a reputation for being sedate and sedative in the presence of the fair, and for being given to pinks in oolong and underlinen. We are inwardly gratified that we are reputed to be rough in our ways, ready with our blandishments, and resolute in our pursuit of happiness and its appurtenances. Neither estimate errs on the side of verity, but to deny that we appreciate both would be to stretch the truth still further...