Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...section on students' reasons for taking leaves, the 36-page study states that a "common thread" among those deciding to leave is "the personal quest involved in the venture." Seventy-three per cent of those surveyed sought a "clearer direction in life," according to the report...
...people's failure to live up to their ideals, but to the sickness at the heart of ideals that rank continence above saving lives and spur people to die and kill and sacrifice themselves, not for a future where that will be less necessary but in a hopeless quest for a merely personal righteousness. The play is about the inevitable injustice of middle-class justice, which measures justice out as though it were possible to measure people's lives by absolute, fixed units like the monetary standards on which the play's moralists finally rest their morality. Isabel cries...
...Crimson captain, epee man Eugene White, continued his quest for an All-Ivy commendation by sweeping three straight for Harvard. In foil, All-Ivy contender Phillipe Bennett took two out of three, as did Eric Read (epee), Howie Weiss, and Don Valentine (foil...
...fitting that Jenkins's quest ends the Crimson season, for he is the prototype of the scholar-athlete rookie coach Sanders is seeking...
...Harvard fencing team suffered a frustrating setback in its quest for the Ivy League championship last Friday in Ithaca, N.Y., losing to a stubborn Cornell squad...