Word: quest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proceeded to project Senator Moses as the leader of the irreconcilable group which despaired of re-electing President Harding and wanted, therefore, to nominate Senator Johnson of California in his stead. "Both Johnson and Moses are going to Europe," says a statement issued by the National Democratic Committee, "in quest of ammunition to fire at Mr. Harding and his proposition with respect to American participation in the International Court. Confident that only an irreconcilable and a confirmed isolationist can win the next election, Senator Moses and his associates wish to settle the issue within the party before the nomination...
Since basketball was reinstated as a minor sport here three years ago, its followers, in their quest for popular recognition; have always been overshadowed by hockey. Still they have persisted, with the example before them of other colleges, notably Yale and Princeton, where both sports meet with equal favor. This impartiality may be due to the fact that there hockey is a minor sport and therefore less emphasized, or to interest in the intercollegiate Basketball League, to which the University does not belong. At any rate the game has found much less popularity here; and unless the taste is changed...
...welcome the Bulldog to Cambridge today, and the thousands who follow him on his quest to John Harvard's pantry. He probably realizes that he won't be received with a "Help yourself." In fact it is only fair to warn him that there is a cry about the Square, requesting that the same treatment be given him as the possum; "Carve him to the bone". A peculiar sort of hospitality, that! But for that matter a peculiar sort of quest; we have heard that growl before--it means business...
...independence of be lier Warning against "illiberal provinciality." Dean Briggs advised his audience to remember that no man can be an intelligent radical if he goes only to radicals for his ideas of conservatism. In concluding, he said: "We welcome you as liberals in the difficult and noble quest of the square deal and the open mind. Much that is fundamental is as yet undiscovered. You as young citizens, are to do your part in seeking it. The quest in noble for its end is the welfare of humanity...
...large university, in general, can secure for its faculty "bigger" men than the smaller institutions can afford to maintain. The youth in quest of higher education is supposed to have outgrown his preparatory-school days; in entering the large university he finds himself in a man's college. He finds large classes there because the professor of high intellectual capacity is in great demand. He gains from the instruction offered him just so much as he thinks worth while. The large university has never claimed to train scholars as schoolboys are taught. It makes no pretensions now to teach...