Word: quest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...QUEST FOR CORVO ? A. J. A. Symons?Macmillan...
Author Symons calls his book "An Experiment in Biography." His scheme has been to take readers along with him in his "quest" for the man behind the legend while he unearths old letters, lost manuscripts, people who knew Corvo. The book is the story of a personality. It is also the story of the story. The trail begins in 1925 when Symons first hears of his man through reading Hadrian the Seventh, Corvo's tale of a young English Catholic who becomes Pope. Struck by its power and originality, he makes inquiries about the author, hears many a contradictory yarn...
This year the racehorse whose name is most frequently bracketed with that of Man o' War is Mrs. Sloane's Cavalcade. The only race Cavalcade has lost this year is the Preakness, in which he was a close second to his stablemate, High Quest. He has won the Shenandoah Purse, Chesapeake Stakes, Kentucky Derby, American Derby, Detroit Derby and Arlington Classic, against the best horses of his age in the country. At the Saratoga yearling sales in 1932, Cavalcade cost his owner $1,200. He is now insured at $200,000, valued at $500,000. His winnings total...
...Osservatore. "A drop of liquor and a cigaret were not refused, yet Christ was denied to these unfortunate Germans. How sad their agony must have been. It is unheard of and terrifying to refuse to souls their supreme comfort: God's forgiveness. For the essence of Christianity is the quest of God's forgiveness...
...find the happy teacher lately became the scientific quest of Assistant Director Robert Hoppock of National Occupational Conference. He asked groups of teachers if they were happy in their work, why or why not. One-fourth of the unhappy teachers had been so from youth when they had wanted to run away from home. Thirty per cent of them felt that their jobs made them do things that hurt their consciences, and 40% thought there was too much politics in school work. Happy teachers, on the other hand, were more religious, less troubled by conscience and politics. More of them...