Word: quests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thisbe, U. S. eight-metre boat, after trailing by 300 yards most of the way in the deciding race; an international match for the Canada's cup on Lake Ontario off Rochester, catching Quest, Fife-designed Canadian yacht, in a spinnaker run on the next-to-last...
...firm with which G. P. Putnam's Sons will merge (through an exchange of stock) has published John Dewey's The Quest for Certainty and Alice Grant Rosman's present big-selling The Young and Secret. Minton, Balch & Co., Inc. for the immediate future at least, will be run as a separate department, "benefiting from the wide Putnam scope. Palmer Cosslet Putnam's new partners are Melville Minton. 45. a big-chested, hardworking salesman with a business head; and Earle Balch, 36, the curly-headed, smiling, amiable, pianoplaying, song-singing, artistic half of the combination...
...middle of Greenland, through the Faroe Islands and Iceland- nowhere over more than 300 mi. of water. That is why a party of scientists and airmen (of only 23 years average age) sailed last week from England for the Faroe Islands in Sir Ernest Shackleton's historic ship Quest. As the British arctic air route expedition, commanded by H. G. Watkins, the group will remain until autumn of 1931, amassing weather data, exploring the ice cap of Greenland, making aerial surveys of the east coast of Greenland and into the far North-all for the purpose of linking England...
...Grace Goodhue Coolidge had another poem. "The Quest," published in Good Housekeeping (her first, "The Open Door," in memory of Calvin Coolidge Jr., was published in the issue of October 1929). "The Quest": Crossing the uplands of time, Skirting the borders of night, Scaling the face of the peak of dreams, We enter the region of light And, hastening on with eager intent, Arrive at the rainbow's end, And there uncover the pot of gold Buried deep in the heart of a friend. Macfadden is the name which the Chamber of Commerce of Redding, Calif, will bestow upon...
...with Elizabeth. Elizabeth and Paul adored and tortured each other. . . . The same violent nights, the same clammy mornings, the same long afternoons when the children became estrays, moles in the light of day. It ended up with Elizabeth and Gerard's going out together. Paul went out in quest of his own pleasures...