Word: quested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twice she circled the globe, and many times she wandered off into Arabia on a quest for pure joy. "Can you picture," she cries, "the singular beauty of these moonlight departures! The frail Arab tents falling one by one . . . dark masses of the kneeling camels . . . shrouded figures . . ." These things lured Gertrude Bell into desert lands and kept her prowling there, writing books on archeology, writing others on the land & people which British officers later conned furiously as they set sail to fight the Near Eastern campaigns of the World...
...turned his back on Liszt and his theatrics. Liszt claimed a native Hungarian music when he took gypsies' tunes and made them into rhapsodies. But gypsies were not Hungarians, Bartók held, their jiggings not the real musical stuff of his people. He went forth on a quest, spent two years among the Magyar peasants, listening and remembering. He found the real Hungarian folk-tunes akin to early ecclesiastic music, their rhythms more like Bach and Handel than like Liszt. He collected nearly 3,000 of them. He turned put a one-act opera, two ballet-pantomimes, seven...
That only one fourth of the students in the graduate schools of Columbia were men whose capabilities justified their quest for a degree was the substance of a report made public by Doctor Frederick E.J. Woodbridge, Dean of the Graduate Faculties of Columbia. In his opinion this proportion is not peculiar to Columbia, but is typical of the graduate school situation throughout the United States. His statements are based not on conjecture, but on the figures supplied by the registrar of the university. Only 35 per cent of those who matriculate into the graduate schools of Columbia ever gain their...
...Crimson's aspiring journalists were sent forth on their quest with explicit instructions as to how to draw the desired information from the Eli graduates scattered throughout the Law, Business, and other graduate schools. In order to prevent possible complications they were to ask but one question, "What's wrong with Harvard", and to take down the answer verbatim. Only accredited Yale alumni were to be approached and short, pithy replies were to be encouraged...
...QUEST OF YOUTH-Jeffery Farnol-Little Brown ($2.50). Sir Marmaduke Anthony Ashley John de la Pole Vane-Temperly not unnaturally grows tired of a solitude broken only by hearing his faithful servant John Hobbs speak his name in a respectful whisper through the corridors of a big mansion. In Hessian boots and quest of youth, he ventures over the blood-and-thunderous landscape on which he finds, among other adventures, his wife who had left him 20 years before and Eve-Ann Ash, the girl he kisses on the last page. This is after Jasper Shrig, detective, has made sure...