Word: quests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been the quest to see beyond veneers...
...Department announcement states that all advanced ROTC students in Harvard College, upon this call to active duty, will continue in college until graduation, maintaining their regular academic programs in quest of degrees. After graduation they will be sent to the Field Artillery School for a basic course of instruction of three months duration. At the conclusion of this course they will be commissioned in the Officers Reserve Corps...
...Kalaf, now the head of a family and the proprietor of a Superior grocery store, decided that 25 years without hajjel was plenty. Brooding brought action: he wrote the U.S. Consul in Beirut, Syria. The consul gave him encouragement but no hajjel. Then Western Cartridge Co. heard about his quest, got hold of 30 hajjel and sent them to a surprised but grateful Mannheim Kalaf. He turned 26 loose in the hills, kept four cocks for training. (One of these warriors has licked the tail feathers off every rooster in Superior...
There are some traditions that no one is going to miss. Coasting through college on three C's and a D is out for the duration. But the serious student who wants to get a liberal education in the humane tradition is on an almost hopeless quest. In the sciences he is perhaps worst off: the physics department has been converted into a technical school for the Signal Corps, and budding Einsteins are nipped before they can begin to bloom. That this step was necessary makes it no less unhappy. In the social sciences, specific war service programs are taking...
...Tuesday Coach Stahl will send Moe Berg in quest of a revenge victory over an all-star Fort team from the Boston area...