Word: quests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another point stressed by Karpovich was the "realism" that dominates the thinking of the country today. Instead of the fatalism now implied by the word, Karpovich would substitute the meaning of "recognition of an evil and a quest for a remedy...
...Meanwhile we have learned enough from these latest times not to expect some miracle of novelty which will save us hereafter. We must work out our own salvation. It will be to the gradual perfection of the institutions we now have, rather than to the quest for some entirely new institutions, that we shall have to look for help and guidance in fashioning a better world in days to come. Our churches, like our schools and colleges, accept, therefore, the duty of self criticism and self-discipline which the times demand...
...Still in quest of its second victory, the Varsity will swing into action tomorrow when it takes on Cushing General Hospital at Framingham. The Jayvees will meet Governor Dummer Academy here at 5 o'clock tomorrow
...retelling. It is the story of an indigent Los Angeles private detective (Dick Powell) who, for the sake of a few spare dollars, helps a gigantic imbecile named Moose Malloy (Mike Mazurki) to hunt down the girl he loved when he went to jail. In the course of the quest the detective interviews a wonderful, boozy old floozy (Esther Howard) who could bring Hogarth up to date. Before long he finds himself suspected of murder and hired by several conflicting sides in a fight whose meaning and dimension he only gradually finds out. It involves invaluable jade, the slaughter...
Sirs: Being unable to find even a trace of glamorous Gertrude [Dirty Gertie of Bizerte] in Bizerte, we extended our quest across the coast of North Africa from the tip of Cape Bon to Casablanca. Our ceaseless searching was finally rewarded at Sidi-Bel-Abbes, headquarters of the French Foreign Legion (in which Ronald Colman fought so many ferocious battles), when we came upon an alluring Arabian astride a motorcycle, who claimed to be the identical girl about whom the celebrated song was written...