Word: quest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conant will restrict his speech somewhat to the present and a justification and explanation of the worth of United States, but prophecy will, however, occupy part of the address, and Mr. Conant will touch on academic freedom and the quest of truth...
...father makes an outcast of the Hamlet-like son, forces him into a relentless, selfless pursuit for revenge; not for the joy of revenge itself but for the vindication of his faith in the truth and justice which must be if existence is to justify the struggle. His quest leads him to the tenement home of the Esdrases cowering beneath the symbolic shadow of the East Side New York skyline. The exotic beauty and youthful freshness of the young daughter, Miriamne, hypnotize him but he cannot give himself to love for the crushing burden of his disillusion and the gnawing...
...broadcasting studio in Lowell House: At the first peals of Dunster's bells, coincident with the Fly Club's winter dinner, Colonel Apted set out upon the most methodical search of each room of the Tower entry of Lowell House, seeking the transmitting center. After some fifteen minutes his quest led him to the fifth floor suite, wherein lay his blatant quarry...
...problems. Her fortune was made by the frank ruthlessness of the oil magnate and she is upset by the emotional unstability and radical thought of her granddaughter and her friends. Between the two extremes, the second generation is represented by her daughter, Leonie (Miss Claire) whose only quest is for affection and amusement...
...taking thousands of the land's youth off city streets and out of the alums to healthy country air to lead a normal, healthy life and at the same time earn a little money; for the NYA which is aiding 1650 students on our own campus in their quest for an education...