Word: quests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quest of their fourth consecutive victory, Frank Vaughan's Yardling swimmers, 23 strong, trek up to Andover this afternoon to engage a well-fortified undefeated Phillipian outfit...
...Japanese landed in Sarawak, on the wild and oily island of Borneo. So far this was only a holding attack on Singapore's flank; it might eventually develop into a quest for oil, but the British reported that they had already destroyed the wells in the region threatened by the Japanese...
...this quest for a brief three minutes of entertainment, there are fortunately a few names which rarely disappoint. Everyone raves about Duke Ellington, and his bandwagon is one on which I have long been riding. Duke has abandoned the overwrought orchestrations he was writing a few years ago, and has reverted to arrangements more in the jazz idiom, with wider opportunities for his soloists. Last week he turned out Five O'clock Drag and Clementine, two original riff numbers arranged in the Ellington tradition of unexpected effects and frequent dissonance's, particularly in the brass section. Clementine...
Whatever the merits of Alex Taub's quest, the Sabre, already flying in the formidable Hawker Typhoon fighter, was a fair symbol of the horsepower race. Well knowing that there is no substitute for "soup," British designers had gone all out after horsepower. The Sabre turns up nearly twice the horsepower of the old British pursuit engine, the 1,200 horsepower Rolls-Royce Merlin (which Packard is still tooling up to make for Britain and the U.S., under a $187,500,000 order). But the U.S. is hot after horsepower too: it already...
Radio's quest for a missing "Babe" ended last week in Toronto when a United church, three ex-baby-burlesqueens and the indignant relatives of a plumber named William John Wright agreed out of court to split his $12,500 estate. The case was the screwiest yet aired by the CBS Court of Missing Heirs, which on a coast-to-coast hookup has unearthed claimants to over...