Word: questing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this point Arthur Holly Compton, already a crowned king of terrestrial radiation, leaped into the cosmic quest. He had an impatient desire to collect a mass of far-flung recordings with the greatest possible speed. Eight cooperating expeditions were to measure the rays in Greenland, Denmark, India, Ceylon, Java, Tibet, South Africa, Eritrea, Spitsbergen, Switzerland. One man was to make records from Peru around the Cape of Good Hope to the U. S. Two Compton men were killed trying to scale Mt. McKinley in Alaska. Dr. Compton himself, with his wife and elder son, set out on a cosmic search...
...your insatiable quest for the cynical aspect on news, you have committed a couple of bobbles in the U. C. L. A.-Key story in TIME, Nov. 18. . . . I think we have real reason to resent the inferences in your article...
Still other subscribers are lost as far as the Coop is concerned, and it is the search for these to which the manager was referring. This quest will last for upwards of two year until finally crowned by success...
...ring which is selling the secrets of the Air Ministry and that she has just committed a murder. Hannay considers this nonsense until the next morning, when he finds his guest dying with a knife in her back. Thus assured of her veracity, he constitutes himself heir to her quest and with the meagre information she has given him sets out to solve the riddle of the Thirty-Nine Steps...
There was a little hesitation, perhaps that is why he was ultimately unsuccessful in his quest, and then the applicant stammered, "Why, yes, sir, I guess...