Word: pursuitence
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Josephine K. case, the board of inquiry had the captured ship ballasted with scrap iron, staged a race with the CG-145. The Josephine K. made 9.55 knots, the patrol boat 11.15. Again the evidence was favorable to the Coast Guard. Sea lawyers also remembered the "hot pursuit" clause in the 1924 agreement, but whether a hot pursuit is limited to within an hour's sailing, or whether it may extend onto the high seas is a moot point. Coast Guardsmen felt they were within their rights when they sank the I'm Alone...
Hero of the battle in the Italian press was 32-year-old Amadeo Umberto Isabella Luigi Filippo Maria Guiseppe Giovanni, Duke of Apulia, cousin of the King, son of the Duke of Aosta, who commanded a squadron of pursuit planes. While the defeated Senussi, with their wives, children, oxen and asses fled like Joseph and Mary into Egypt, Duke Amadeo harried them mightily from the sky, raked them with blazing machine guns, whistling bombs. "Along the route," cabled a correspondent, "water wells at Matea, Bisciara, and elsewhere are filled with bodies...
...exceedingly difficult to draw the line between the pursuit of the proper individualism and selfishness. There can be little doubt that the tendency of the modern undergraduate to do what he pleases first, last, and always is as much of a distortion of true values as the most depraved dependence upon form, custom, tradition and so forth. He thinks that he is successfully resisting traps into which others before him have fallen. In reality, he is just as blind to his best interests as in the other extreme...
...Consequently in the Fatherland there is little of the sentimental loyalty which binds American alumni to the place of matriculation. If traveling scholarships could be brought into more general use, it would emphasize to many that knowledge is not necessarily embodied in an American college degree, but a universal pursuit which nothing can more accentuate than the "Wanderlust...
...this problem with a view to find ways and means of securing students better adapted to the study of medicine, and thus reducing this heavy mortality and the tremendous waste of time and money of those who undertake the study of medicine without the aptitude necessary for the successful pursuit of a medical course...