Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...department, Lamar believes proper blocking and tackling to be of the essence, and holds that position is the vital factor. "If you can teach a man position, the man can do the rest of it if he wants to play. Knowing how to play a man, knowing angles of pursuit and angles of power are very important...
...takes $10 million to start a newspaper in a big city and $1 million in a middle-sized city. Reporter Liebling's solutions (which all call for big money, too): 1) newspapers backed by labor unions, citizens' groups and political parties, 2) endowed newspapers, "devoted to pursuit of daily truth as Dartmouth is to that of knowledge." Liebling thinks an increasing number of readers share his mistrust of newspapers. Says he: "There is less a disposition to accept what they say than to try to estimate the probable truth . . . like aiming a rifle [with] a deviation...
Pine Manor is summed up succinctly as a place where young ladies learn "about the ways of college boys and how they come and go in two years instead of four. Everyone is prepared for Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of the Junior League just that much sooner," the authors comment...
...anticipate that men whose aim has been the winning of elections, or increasing the earnings of their stockholders, or even defeating the enemy in a series of bloody battles, will automatically sympathize with these ideals of a university-complete freedom of research, untrammeled freedom of teaching, and the pursuit of truth wherever that may lead...
...Russia's move. If she changes her viewpoint, recognizes other nations' rights to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness as well as Religious Freedom . . . her opponent might delay the checkmate (moving of white bishop one space forward, diagonally), or at least give Russia another chance (new game...