Word: quest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Newest of Philadelphia's publishers, Moe Annenberg is the most feared of all. Yet in his quest for respectability he has not been unmindful of the ethics of his profession. Two months ago the Inquirer posted on its masthead the slogan: "An Independent Newspaper for All the People," and it has kept its promise of independence. It has soured on Governor James, whom it helped to elect, has roasted the Legislature for killing Philadelphia's much-needed City Charter Bill, will back a Democratic mayoralty ticket next fall if Annenberg does not like the Republican nominee. Publisher Annenberg...
Your magazine, from its first issue, has been my Galahad-yes, that's mighty sticky, but leave me what's left of my girlish romanticism. Your articles have been fair, direct and intensely interesting, and now you, my Galahad, that I have cheered on in your quest for truth, have (oh, boor that you really are) spit in the Holy Grail. That tacky, smart-alecky corruption of the King and Queen's visit! Bad, bad taste...
Lewis' own idea about the sex life of the Harvard undergraduate is that too often he sets out in quest of amorous adventures according "to some preconceived hard-and-fast theory, too frequently grounded on the exaggerations and distortions of other undergraduates boasting in bull sessions...
Princeton's Varsity baseballers split even in a six-game vacation campaign, and for this reason more than anything else they deserve to be regarded as a threat in the Eastern Intercollegiate pennant quest. They took their last three spring trip tilts but since then have bowed to Fordham and Navy...
...entire southwestern quarter of Iowa (Council Bluffs the exception) and Crestonians are proud of its up-and-comingness. Crestonman Elmo Roper of FORTUNE Survey needs take no poll to know that. And you'll hear more about Creston if Crestonman Frank Phillips is successful in his present quest for a rich oil pool beneath the famous bluegrass (and corn) fields of this area. Creston even had three daily newspapers when Crestonman Gerald P. Nye was behind this very desk...