Word: quests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...baby mouse waltzer begins to dance when it is one week old. Thereafter, think scientists, its life is a frantic quest for the balance which it cannot feel on a horizontal plane. Sometimes it whirls on a hind leg, sometimes runs in circles or figure-eights, always twitching, jerking, swaying its head. Occasionally an accomplished mouse varies the routine with a shuffling backstep. Sometimes the mice dance together, one spinning on a hind leg while another runs circles around it. They like to run on treadmills, through tunnels, over bridges, up inclines...
...QUEST FOR POLAR TREASURES-Jan Welzl-Macmillan...
...Thirty Years in the Golden North (TIME, May 23), with or without salt, should smack their lips over this anecdotal sequel. In the first book Welzl told how, from being a locksmith, sailor, tramp he became a trader, proprietor of a boat, chief judge of New Siberia. In The Quest for Polar Treasures he describes with the same unliterary candor tall tales of further gold and fur hunts...
...following week, on Friday, January 20, a discussion entitled "Exploring the Sun" will be delivered by Dr. Menzel. Continuing on Friday nights, the subjects and talkers are as follows: "Touring the Planets," Leon Campbell, instructor in Astronomy; "The What and Why of Schooling Stars," Dr. P. M. Millman: "In Quest of Comets," Dr. F. L. Whipple: "Unravelling Stellar Secrets". Dr. A. J. Cannon: "The Insides of Stars". Dr. Payne: "The Worlds of Gas," Dr. R. J. Hok. Wilson Teaching Fellow: "The Chemistry of Interstellar Space." V. B. Andrews '2b instructor in Astronomy: and "The Chemistry of Evolution." Harlew Shapley. Patne...
...another for about eight months of the year, spending four tied down to an office desk. Of course, those four months meant pretty hard routine work. But a trip to Italy on the excuse of buying Italian books, to Germany for Incunabula, or merely around England and Scotland in quest of English works were a refreshing interlude...