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Word: quested (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yardlings, still in quest of their first victory, journey to Milton Academy this afternoon, while their Junior Varsity counterparts, who have only a tie game with the Freshmen to their credit, entertain the Tufts Jayvees...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dusk Ends '51-BU Game in 7-7 Tie | 4/16/1948 | See Source »

Behind the turnout there was more than vernal interest in a vernal theme; there was also the Muscovites' incessant quest for the latest twist of the Communist Party's line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Love on the Party Line | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

...radical improvement" might be. While Finland's leftist Premier Mauno Pekkala began packing for a trip to Moscow, others in Finland were also snapping their suitcase locks. Swarms of Baltic and Russian refugees swamped Helsinki's Swedish consulate seeking visas, and in their near-panic quest for hard currency the open market price of a dollar shot up from 700 Finn-marks to 1,000. Finland's Communist

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: For a Radical Improvement | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...more important to the 20th Century than the United Nations Assembly or any investigation by the Senate. For decades large segments of the Christian churches shied away from theology; God was "a lurking luminosity, a cozy thought." Against the current of his day, Niebuhr pursues a quest into the nature of God, of man, of sin. What Niebuhr thinks has a profound connection with the business of establishing and maintaining a democratic civilization. Niebuhr is not easy to understand (TIME'S editors, at least, do not find him easy); but it is TIME'S job to make Niebuhr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Story Of An Experiment: What's News? | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...over-restraint and inhibition, but of irresponsibility, guilt and immaturity. "Above all," Mowrer concluded, ". . . the ethical accomplishment of untold past generations, as imbedded in the conscience of modern men & women, is not a stupid, malevolent archaic incubus, but a challenge and guide for the individual in his quest for self-fulfillment and harmonious integration." (For a psychologist, it was almost a psalm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: In the Age of Anxiety | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

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