Word: quest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shortly thereafter came scintillant Cecelia Gertrude Shere, waving dark locks, out of the West in quest of fame...
...delectable vision conjured up by their mother's words. At last their vigil is rewarded and the familiar step of their progenitor echoes through the open transom. But as the door swings open upon the expectant group, one glance suffices to convey the dire truth that the father's quest has been in vain. Abstract knowledge is the only sustenance he has to offer in the eyes of the brave mother...
...irrepressible Count Von Luckner offers further opportunity for German-American association in a projected cruise for university students which he himself will conduct, and in which there will be place for a number of Harvard men. In this expedition the quest for international amity will be ancillary to the desire to promote in young gentlemen an Elizabethan love of adventure...
...electives, to choose first subjects which were hard and to choose second subjects which were interesting. Compare this attitude with that of the great mass of college student. Through their spokesmen, the undergraduate editors, they are constantly demanding that education be made easier and more attractive. Their most earnest quest is for a process of such ingenuity and perfection that it will educate them in spite of themselves. The demands of the undergraduate critic may uncover certain remediable defects in college systems and in college faculties; to a much larger extent they cover over the fundamental weakness of the undergraduates...
...paradise. To get some of those birds, and on his way to photograph other jungle life, for the New York Zoological Park, Curator Lee S. Crandall left Manhattan last week. At Port Moresby, Papua, he will make up his field expedition of habitants and natives. Particular end of his quest is the "Rudolf," largest and most gorgeous bird of paradise. When it is not drifting between twilit trees, it hangs upside down, its feathers swaying about like the chiffon drapes of a young girl's party dress...