Word: quest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...official of the Alumni Placement Service stresses the fact that the Seniors whom he assists in securing positions would have far more success in their quest for jobs if they possessed more than a passing interest in, and knowledge of, the places for which they apply. However, most students are apparently oblivious of the need for serious thought about their careers and too little is done to enlighten them. An increase in the activity of the Consultant's Office is necessary to supply undergraduates which is so essential...
...Founder Bullock & friends can raise a fat endowment, will be to patronize eight or ten lucky U. S. poets by annual stipends of $5,000 apiece. No poet herself but a rich and comely young socialite. Mrs. Bullock had enlisted as sponsors Mrs. Calvin Coolidge (The Open Door, The Quest, Watch Fires}, Mrs. James Roosevelt. Owen D. Young, Princess Barbara Hutton Mdivani. many an other bigwig, poetic or unpoetic. Said Mrs. Bullock: "Poets must eat. . . . Our entire purpose is to free genius from the necessity of gaining a livelihood by almost any means except the means it was born...
...them to the bottom of deep lakes, taken them down in mines, flown them in airplanes, sent them up in balloons manned and unmanned. All over the world, from Panama to Ceylon, from the Equator to within 350 miles of the North Magnetic Pole, they have carried a cosmic quest which has cost at least two lives. It has been found that cosmic rays are either particles of matter or units of radiation, or both, with energies of billions of electron volts, energies beyond the power of any man-made device to reproduce. They bombard Earth continually from all directions...
This is the one about the lady spy whose espionage and counter espionage is complicated by affairs of the heart. "Stamboul Quest," concerning the exploits of Myrna Loy as a German secret service agent, bears too striking resemblance to the well-known story of Mata Hari, and suffers accordingly. Despite the stereotyped plot, the film is capably handled, and proves interesting. Miss Loy, entrusted with the all-important mission of investigating the loyalty of the Turkish commander of the Dardanelles, moves through her role with capable restraint. George Brent is the disturbing factor in Miss Loy's counter-espionage...
...Isabel Dodge Sloane's Psychic Bid, stablemate of Cavalcade and High Quest, ridden by Mack Garner: the $29,000 Hopeful Stakes; by five lengths, against a field of 15 crack two-year-olds; at Saratoga Springs...