Word: quests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...career well spent, not in search of scoops but in quest of understanding between peoples. In characteristic Lewis fashion, it would not end abruptly. First he would break in a successor. Then, some time in the spring, his spare, well-clad frame and his bass-drum voice would clear out of his small, wildly cluttered office in Washington's National Press Building. After that, he and the leisurely Times didn't quite know...
...Nanking. By a stroke of luck and persistence in following up a Shanghai newspaper ad, we discovered the little house which is our domicile and TIME-LIFE'S Nanking office. I cannot even begin to convey the amount of personal effort and frustration we put into the housing quest. As an old China hand puts it: "If you hear of a house in Nanking, you don't ask to see it; you take it on the spot sight unseen and then you look over what...
...extension of Coney Island peopled mostly by tycoons, cinema cutups and political crackpots. He married an American (Margaret Adele MacKnight of New York City). Mrs. Cruikshank is an editor of London's Economist, writes on U.S. affairs. He turned his favorite subject into a novel, The Double Quest, using the symbol of a Briton's love for an American girl as the theme for Anglo-U.S. amity. Later, as wartime head of the Ministry of Information's American Division, he suggested the same idea to cinema scripters, saw it come to light as the movie Stairway...
...hundreds of years, Paris' chiffoniers (rag pickers) had shuffled about quietly in the half-light before dawn, pawing through potato peels and rotten meat in their quest for a handful of old rags or an empty tin can. (Their .reward: for a kilo of rags, 4 francs; for a kilo of iron, half a franc...
...opening contest on the program will find Coach Warren Berg in quest of a third straight victory for his high-flying Freshman team. Captain John Rockwell, who has totaled a tidy 53 points in two contests, will pair with Frank Lionette at the forwards, Pat Dailey is at center, and Dick Covey will team with Dick Reifsnyder or Chuck Brynteson at the guards. PROBABLE LINEUPS HARVARD TUFTS Nobio lf Ham Page rf Antonelli Hauptfuhrer c Kolankiewicz Marlaschin lg Cooney Davis rg Tryder