Word: quest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Again I besiege the walls of TIME in the quest of knowledge, with firm assurance that your reply will be as prompt and gratifying as in the past...
...story is of Judith* and was originally concentrated for the stage by Henri Bernstein. It argues that the quest of glory can be consummated more surely by service to one's people than by love. Though they are in love, Judith kills Holofernes in his tent. There is all the declamation and gaily colored scenery requisite to sustain these hours of argument and action. The general combination is conducive to little except definite apathy...
...that little body seated in the swivel chair. And what was the witchcraft that he used? Vanished worlds arose from the graves of time to live again in pomp and pageantry. Homer's heroes exchanged ringing blows on the windy plains of Troy. Armored knights spurred in quest of the Holy Grail. Lear went raving over the heath. A tramp steamer careened across the Indian Ocean shearing spray off her bows, and the dawn came up like thunder.... And on the hard wooden chairs sat hundreds of boys, young barbarians, fascinated, spellbound, many if not most of them realizing, perhaps...
...turned to Science to complete the quest...
Hungry students in quest of squash courts will have to remain hungry it was decided as a result of the election held at the squash courts which resulted in 180 votes favoring 8.45 o'clock, the present time, as the opening hour of the building and 164 ballots being cast for advancing the time to 8.30 o'clock...