Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mark Twain and George Bernard Shaw. Henderson bought ink by the quart for his own use, once turned out five books in one year ("When I get tired, I just go from one to another"). His advice to students: "The university offers you, not education, but only the pursuit of education-forever and ever...
...independent" party headed by John R. Evans of Washington. Said Secretary-Treasurer Don Hurd: the vote was "not merely re-election of the incumbents, but is a general membership affirmation of the policies they pursued." That was notice to publishers not to throw away their Vari-Typers; the pursuit would continue...
...their cheers, King spoke vigorously for 45 minutes on the theme of the great Liberals Quebec has produced. To the list of "giants" headed by Laurier, King tactfully added the name of Quebec Liberal Leader Adélard Godbout, with whom he had "shared so many years ... in the pursuit of Liberal ideals...
...number of courses open to him and some help in integrating what he learns. Otherwise, he is left alone with a so-called adviser and the concentration and distribution rules, neither of which are capable of preventing some students from sacrificing themselves to a narrow program and a dogged pursuit of the Cum Laude Cause. Nor can others be prevented from choosing distribution courses in far too haphazard a way to fulfill any of the requisites of a "liberal education...
Last week, without consulting the newsmen, attorneys for the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer gave up the fight; they forfeited the bonds in court. The Ledger-Enquirer management piously promised "not [to] abate its pursuit of full justice. . . ." But it apparently took the word of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation that it would be "impossible" to win the case "since [the Klan] would be able to furnish approximately 175 witnesses against the newspaper reporters." At week's end, City Editor Joe Hall quit in disgust...