Word: quested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Deep down at the bottom of Brown's failure in its quest for Ivy League leadership has been its lack of funds. A small endowment and heavy dependence on yearly gifts will continue to be the largest single stumbling block in the university's future quest for a nationally respected faculty. Without these funds Wriston faces the almost impossible task of offering instruction equal to the best...
...students flunk out every year. Of the present senior class at Brown only 365 remain from an original freshman group of over 600. This sharp drop is a public warning that Brown expects its students to keep their averages up. It also suggests that Wriston may be overdoing his quest for the top. He may be asking for more than his students are intellectually capable of producing...
...live about 1,000,000 Achinese, a proud and irritable people, unshakably Moslem, the first Indonesians to embrace Islam in the 11th century and the last to be pacified by the Dutch (1904). Some centuries ago the Achinese were intrepid pirates, raiding Western shipping, and attacking fortified towns in quest of slaves, concubines and booty. In modern times they have been peaceful farmers, fishermen and plantation workers. But they still reach for their weapons when aroused; and last week the Achinese were in bloody revolt against the Indonesian government at Jakarta, on the neighboring (and more populous) island of Java...
Still riding high, the harriers will meet Brown in quest of a third win tomorrow. With such a short interval between meets, the teams will probably have only a light workout this afternoon...
...Adventures of Augie March is concerned with Augie's quest to learn his own character and destiny. Novelist Saul Bellow (Dangling Man, The Victim) has handed over his typewriter to his hero, to let him tell his own story in his own way. As a result, the book, which has a kind of self-generating power and authenticity, reads more like fictionalized memoirs than a novel. Self-educated, slum-bred Augie writes with a combination of raw, breezy slang and literary allusion that is often bouncy and effective, although too frequently his overenthusiastic prose is merely bloated. But Augie...