Word: quests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speech, Bingham attributed the controversial nature of athletics today to the quest for gate receipts, the desire to make football pay for the other sports. The future of college football, Bingham stated, depends upon the alumni, for only if alumni attend the games can the public be expected to turn...
...products, ranging from dynamite to penicillin, made in I.C.I.'s 100-odd British plants. In Wilmington, Du Pont took the news calmly. Said a spokesman: "Du Pont has been competing vigorously with I.C.L in the British Empire, and it is logical to expect that in the British quest for dollar exchange they would try every means to better their competitive position in the U.S." In Washington, the Department of Justice said it would go right ahead with its trial to break up the alleged cartel...
Present University plans call for an great an addition as possible to scholarship funds in the near future, in an attempt to "re-establish the level of the program that existed before the war as a minimum objective," in coordination with a quest for increased loan funds and student employment...
...subcommittee made no mention of doing this by a tax increase or a cut in vital expenditures, but simply by removing "waste in government." That meant no hit-or-miss reductions, but a paring down all along the line. "The quest for economy," said the subcommittee, "must be continuing and unrelenting; it must not be limited to any one phase of the business cycle...
...brilliant polo player, and discovered books-Plato, Aristotle, Gibbon, Macaulay, Schopenhauer; he made an intense study of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. When nobody at the Bangalore garrison could tell him what the word "ethics" meant, he began to read in search of answers. It was a long quest, for Churchill was to spend his life in politics and to learn with his friend John Morley that "those who would treat politics and morality apart will never understand the one or the other...