Word: questing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Material. Biggest quest: Rubber. Blocked in the Philippines by adverse land laws, Harvey Firestone is pushing forward with new plantations in Liberia; Henry Ford has six thousand square miles for rubber production in Brazil; the U. S. Rubber Co.'s plantations in Sumatra and Malaya have grown from 14,000 acres to 135,000 acres in 18 years of production...
...QUEST FOR CERTAINTY?John Dewey?Minton, Balch ($4.00). John Dewey, philosopher's philosopher, educator's educator, has played a role in U. S. life not small but not popular.* In his latest book Dr. Dewey returns to one of his favorite attacks on a stubborn position: the problem of getting philosophical knowledge into action. Academic as Dr. Dewey may appear to the layman, he has ever had little use for a fugitive and cloistered learning that never sallies out and seeks its adversary: Life. Experimental knowledge, says he, is the most authentic, the only kind actually worth much. "Knowledge which...
...Hauled over the Berkshires by two puffing locomotives, fore and aft, Harvard's varsity football squad, with its full complement of variegated retainers and a score of Boston newspapermen, paused for ten minutes here late this evening, bound for Ann Arbor, Michigan, on the Crimson's first quest for a big ten scalp on the latter's own battleground...
...campaigns coupled with mass advertising in a closed market are not readily adaptable to the needs of a small island whose traditional outlet for its surplus products has been found in catering to the highly diversified and specialized requirements of markets in every corner of the globe. The central quest to which British energies should be directed is the discovery of the quickest way of exploiting our acknowledged pre-eminence as producers of high quality goods...
Having ridden successfully through one tournament to the national intercollegiate crown the Harvard indoor polo team tonight begins its quest for another title. The Crimson team, led by Captain F. A. Clark '29, plays the initial game in Division A of the national championships tonight opposing the Squadron A trio of New York at Squadron A Armory...