Word: quested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fulfillment of the free . . . It is that there incarnates in the beast A Spirit native to the universe, Which by our signature we have released, Beyond recall, from human custody. . . . Strong men these are, whose hearts can never rest; Forever ending, only to begin; Forever moving on the trackless quest Of what forever is, yet cannot be: Forever turned to face the arduous West- The dream of progress to infinity - The eternal destination of the free...
...week, a 4,000 handful turned out to see the Los Angeles Mustangs meet the Los Angeles Wildcats in a league tussle, whereas 60,000 fans had braved 105° temperatures the day before to watch the University of Southern California play U.C.L.A. This month, further complicating the customer quest, the four-year-old Pacific Coast Football League swings into action...
...there had been no poverty, no slums, no violent strikes; the grapple and grab of business shocked the young couple into questions. In Chicago, with Clarence Darrow and Eugene Debs, they sought answers at the famed forum of Jane Addams' Hull House. In London they continued the quest, helped set up a workingman's college (Ruskin) at Oxford. Later, Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald said: "If Charles Beard had stayed in England, he would have been a member of my Cabinet...
...there on the second day of the storm. . . . The rain was coming down in sheets. The men were marching from their muddy and water-filled slit trenches, mess kits in hand and leaning into the wind, in their quest for some hot food. The wind was reaching a velocity of 40 to 45 miles an hour in its worst puffs, and its whistle was audible above the dreadful sounds of clashing steel and pounding surf. It was about as dismal a scene as I ever recall, and I have seen such things as the Quetta earthquake in India and monsoons...
...American nurse played by Laraine Day. During one of the frequent flashbacks, one learns that he has run out on the beautiful nurse just as he was bout to propose to her, because of a telegram telling him that another researcher has already found the answer to his quest. It is not until the end of the movie, when Dr. Cooper, or Wassell, has led a band of wounded men through air raids, battles and stormy seas to safety in Australia, that he is reunited with his bride...