Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard, presently 2-3-1 in the league, will be hampered in its quest for a .500 Ivy League record by injuries to the line. Munro listed Tony Van Neil, Rick LaCivita, Leroy Thompson and Bob Auritt as injured. "I'm hopeful we'll be able to use them some of the time," Munro said. "We have few linemen...
...Rippe recounts Jeremiah's whimsical quest in a tape which accompanies the shop. In the best American diehard tradition Jeremiah Rippe flouted convention, defied public opinion, devoted his whole life to the creation of ever more powerful and improbable looking engines, and eventually died, a broken and unrecognized inventor mourned only by his dog. His last creation--the spawn of a mind unhinged by disappointment--was a monstrous machine that was meant to pull his coffin to his grave...
Buoyed by last week's come-from-behind win over Penn, the Harvard football team continues its quest for the Ivy title today, meeting an inconsistent Princeton squad at the Stadium...
...shrill voice. Ugo Tognazzi makes a loud farting noise, tongue between his lips, and the feast begins. Kidneys bourguinon. Kidneys bordelaise. Crayfish a la Mozart. Each dish has an identity of its own, but the diners ignore all subtlety in order to concentrate more conscientiously on their suicidal quest. Marcello Mastroianni stuffs down six clams in one bite. Grubby fingers and grubby mouths attack roasted legs of fowl so greedily they would make Henry VIII blush...
...landholders, Lewis was independently wealthy. So was his late wife, the former Annie Auchincloss, who was a granddaughter of Oliver B. Jennings, a founder of the original Standard Oil Company. In fact, Lewis has borne all the research costs of the Walpole endeavor, including some 80 trips abroad in quest of material and the salaries of all his assistants (who have usually numbered about a dozen). Lewis does not like to discuss the project's costs; the Yale University Press will say only that by present-day evaluation, it is a "multimilliondollar venture." Except for the first couple...