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Word: quests (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...school's quest for an independent identity got a boost when, coincidentally, President John F. Kennedy '40 chose to locate his presidential library in Cambridge...

Author: By Kenneth A. Gerber, | Title: Celebrating the Crimson Handshake | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

...whether we think upon the monotony or the violence in human history, two things are always new--youth and the quest for knowledge, and with these a university is concerned. So long as its interest in them is keen it can never grow old, though it counts its age by centuries...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: Harvard at 300: Bathing the Wounds of a University's Troubled World | 9/7/1986 | See Source »

...Many individuals can be entrepreneurs, or advocates, or influential advisors. But only scholars blessed with security and freedom can master the largest subjects and pursue the truth wherever the quest may lead them," Bok said...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: Profs Question Feasibility of Bok Speech | 9/7/1986 | See Source »

...school's quest for an independent identity got a boost when, coincidentally, President John F. Kennedy '40 chose to locate his presidential library in Cambridge...

Author: By Kenneth A. Gerber, | Title: Celebrating the Crimson Handshake | 9/6/1986 | See Source »

...freedom in Africa to slavery and emancipation in Virginia, Dorothy Spruill Redford could trace her family only as far back as her grandparents. But Haley's genealogical pilgrimage impelled her to one of her own. For Redford, 43, a brisk, hard-driving welfare department supervisor in Portsmouth, Va., the quest would last a decade and grow into an obsession, an irresistible desire to light up the dark past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Roots of Dorothy Redford | 9/1/1986 | See Source »

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