Word: quested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With the quest for the American dollar at a new pitch of intensity, cities all over the United States are beginning to fill up with European goods of all shapes and varieties--not the least of them being phonograph records. Imported records, traditionally the province of two stores in New York City, have suddenly been made available to Bostonians and even to residents of the Harvard Square area...
...History, one of the country's leading chroniclers of its social and cultural growth, has east 75 pages of light on a fascinating phase of American striving: the etiquette book. Maintaining that "nothing that concerns human beings can fail to concern the historian," Mr. Schlesiner's Introduction dignifies the quest of good manners as "one aspect of the common man's struggle to achieve a larger degree of human dignity." Statements like these lead the reader to expect a thorough study of manners literature, its relation to and effect on American mores and ideals. What the reader gets, instead...
...Norwegian carpenter named Martin Lie, leaving his wife and a small son, went off to the fabulous world which Oslo still called new. Driven by the instincts common to migrants of all time in quest of adventure or security or freedom (or simply of wider skies and unfamiliar faces), he sailed toward the west. The hard but hospitable shores received him and he vanished, unknown and untraced, in the fertile chaos of a country's growth. No one ever knew whether he found what he sought. He didn't write home...
...Dick Harlow will be relying on more than tradition and sentiment in his quest for an upset victory. The current Crimson unit has displayed considerable improvement with each passing game this season, and its light but mobile line still ranks second in the nation in defense against rushing...
Kirkland, undefeated in House competition and tied only once by a surprising Yard eleven, will throw its T-formation attack against the top Eli College, Calhoun, in quest of the mythical House-College diadem to be added to the Clark Trophy, which indicates supremacy in Harvard intramural football...