Word: quests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Compton [elder brother], president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.) But young President Robert Maynard Hutchins of Chicago was persuasive. A Carnegie Foundation grant was available, and the University helped out further with equipment. So off put Distinguished Dr. Compton, not to Princeton, but to Panama and Peru on cosmic quest...
...University of Chicago, under the leadership of its original-minded President Butchins, set up last fall a virtual educational Utopia for its entering class. Eager students and interested instructors were to cooperate in an earnest and, on the part of the former, practically independent quest for knowledge. No examinations, no grades were to hamper the work until, at length, the individual student felt himself ready to take a series of comprehensive examinations which would graduate him to the senior section of the university. What is to happen then is still a little vague since no one has as yet taken...
...Federal Reserve Bank or the U. S. Assay office. (Avaricious U. S. citizens can, of course, continue to get eagles from any bank?see P-15-) Meanwhile, Bombay banks continued to send gold to London, boosted English bullion reserves over native protests. And, more important, the tireless quest for virgin gold kept on. The best spot heralded last week was in the cold northeast of Sweden where 40 rich claims await development near the Boliden mine, which last year produced twelve tons ($7,000,000) of gold. Said Count Ehrinsvard, Swedish Ambassador to Paris, "The importance of these mines...
...good Congregationalist is Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge, wife of Calvin. She is also a versifier of parts. Last week Maury Madison, composer, who made a parlor song of Mrs. Coolidge's The Quest (TIME, July 7, 1930), appeared in Washington. He plans to hunt and set to music lyrics written by wives of U. S. Presidents, such as Mrs. Herbert Hoover's free verse "interpretative of the discarded pine rafters of the White House," which she carved into gifts. Composer Madison had with him a religious song in which Washington's First Congregational Church became interested. There...
...onetime shaving stick. ¶ Portion of an English Bible. "The rest of this Bible," conjectured the diver who sent the mud up, "had been gnawed away, probably by rats before the Egypt sank." Soon primed last week with wine, spaghetti and fresh bombs, Artiglio II resumed from Brest her quest...