Word: pursuitence
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Additional assignments to five professors for the pursuit of studies in the humanities at Harvard, for the year 1930-31, have been announced by the committee in charge of awards of the General Education Board...
...Eastern Advertising Co. developed the rapid transit advertising field in New England. Adman Sewall is grandson of the late great Arthur Sewall, shipbuilder of Bath, Maine, and a cousin of beauteous Camilla Sewall Edge, wife of the U. S. Ambassador to France. He flew with the celebrated 95th Pursuit Squadron, was officially credited with bringing down seven enemy planes in the St. Mihiel and Argonne offensives, for which he was decorated by the U. S., French and Belgian governments. Before joining Colonial Airways in 1926 to help pioneer the first mail and passenger service in the East, he operated...
...search for this "yardstick of space beyond the stars," to an unrelaxing effort to calibrate it ever more accurately, Dr. Michelson has devoted 52 years. In its pursuit he has literally turned the light on light, made it disclose new truths: about stars so huge that the earth and its whole orbit could be dropped in them and lost; about the ether; about the mysterious place in the universe toward which the sun, all the planets are hurrying at terrific speed...
...that unending pursuit Dr. Michelson has been stimulated by the same feeling for beauty that has made him also a violinist of exceptional skill, an artist whose sketches and water colors were exhibited last winter at his University (of Chicago...
...future for exchange scholarships presaged by recent developments has, perhaps, a wider significance than the broadening reaction on the individual. In an age of unconvincing anti-war pacts and armament reductions, nothing could aid more toward a peaceful understanding among nations than the intermingling of students in the common pursuit of Knowledge...