Word: quests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from being interested in spectacles and rock wool, the country (and its newspapers) became interested in nothing but defense. Arnold and his men therefore took stock of themselves. Overnight their patent quest, without changing its quarry, gave it a new name: Bottlenecks...
...Science and the War," and so on; even the most remote of the ivory-tower dwellers will indulge in a daily, dish of "realism." Insofar as educators give up their customary profound preoccupation with the meaningless and esoteric, such a change can only be accounted a gain. The quest for knowledge, as Robert S. Lynd asserted in "Knowledge for What?", ought to be motivated by some social need, which stimulates an action toward its solution, and in turn encourages the acquisition of knowledge as a guide for that action. That is precisely the effect which this war seems likely...
...much a dirt farmer as a cloud mystic. He is also one of the few mystics who turn their oddities to practical account. He once subsisted for five days on cottonseed meal, soybean oil and cauliflower-not in the interest of dietary flagellation, but in a quest for cheap foods. He has passed many a night hour lying on the ground, looking at the stars. Purpose: to check a complex theory about the relation of the heavenly bodies to weather cycles. He is equally fond of integral calculus and boomerang throwing. Both have their uses: calculus helps in working...
Coach Hal Ulen leads a six-man Crimson tank delegation to Philadelphia today in quest of swimming laurels in the two-day Eastern Intercollegiates. Captain Eric Cutler is the only Harvard merman with a good chance to bring back an individual crown, but the Utenmen may place second to Yale in the final point total...
...Press is now planning to print "The Quest for Peace" by William E. Rappard, the eminent Swiss political scientist. A study of De Quincey's "Opium Eater," by John C. Metcalf, was published last Friday...