Word: quested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know the truth, and the truth shall make you free' [John 8:31-32) . . . Divested of its other implications, the clause referring to discipleship suggests that a commitment is involved if one would find the truth. Commitment to certain basic assumptions is a necessary starting point in the quest for truth...
...operas, the plot is a wildly improbable one, and the whole opera runs for 3½ hours. Yet it has one of Verdi's fieriest scores, some of his most memorable arias, e.g., the soprano's Pace, Pace and the old Caruso-De Luca specialty, Solenne in Quest' Ora (Swear in This Hour). Director Bing, who has already restyled Verdi's Don Carlo, Aida and Rigoletto-and who wants "very much to have in this house a complete Verdi cycle" -settled on Forza for his 1952 opener...
With two regulars riding the beach, Harvard's goal starved varsity soccer team travels to Providence today in quest of its fourth victory of the season against a weak Brown eleven...
Worthy though it is, this goal has its dangers, and Tatum, inadvertently, we suspect, touched on them directly. There is always the possibility of grid-minded alumni pressuring the Admissions Office into overloading the entering class with athletes. So far, however, the University has pursued its quest for variety effectively, without lowering its academic standards. And there is no reason to believe that the College will ever field a team of physical education majors...
...Peace is the dearest treasure in the sight of free men. I have learned this the stern way-from the sight of war." So, too, had he learned of evil: "The organized evil challenging free men in their quest of peace." The great battle against Communism is above all a moral encounter, and freedom needs to gird itself with unity of all classes for the common good, with "the faith teaching us all that we are children of God," with hope "in the greatness and genius of America...