Word: quests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Several months ago, a party set out for the interior of the Darien peninsula, once more bent on the ancient quest. For days and weeks they remained buried in a wilderness of swamp and jungle grass, with nothing to connect them to civilization but a small wireless outfit and the monotonously regular stretcher parties that bore their muttering burdens back to the hospital at Colon. Yesterday, however, came a radiogram. The leader of the expedition reported that of the eleven original members, three were still left in the party; they intended to continue their march in the morning...
...each other's boundaries, for no one is quite sure of what is here. To bring order out of this geographical chaos is the chief purpose of Dr. and Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Rice, of Manhattan and Newport, and their party of ten scientists, who sailed March 29 in quest of the headwaters of the Orinoco. Walter Hinton, naval lieutenant who once flew the NC4 across the Atlantic, and James W. Swanson, radio expert, are members of the party. Hinton will take along a big seaplane for aerial exploration and to protect the expedition against the cannibals of the region...
...opportunity to waggle head and pen reprovingly. The father, a distinguished lawyer, is a solid stratum of old-fashioned notions. His wife is also old-fashioned to the point of slightly addled brains. Son and daughter are of the newer scope, independent, impudent. They are constantly snooping about in quest of suppressed desires and easily fall under the spell of a fashionable, artificial poet-soul in spats. He preaches hypocrisy as the one great sin of a modern world where other sins have been abolished through epigrams...
Tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock, William Earnest Hocking '01, professor of Philosophy in the University, will lecture in Phillips Brooks House on "The Quest of Meaning." Professor Hocking is the author of "The Meaning of God in Human Experience", "Human Nature and Its Remaking", and "Morale and Its Enemies...
...comedy of human nature with primitive background," and it is the first of a series of plays by means of which the author intends to continue his efforts to interpret American life in isolated mountain environment. Previously he has written of the native New England mountaineer; now his quest leads him to the Appalachians of Kentucky...