Word: quests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nonetheless, the Cantabrigians will-struggle to overcome the wrath of the turf gods in the second battle in this year's Ivy Wars. A victory today could prepare Harvard well in the quest for the Ancient Eight wreath...
Sources said Nadav Safran, director of Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies, accepted $107,430 from the CIA in April 1982 to help support his writing of "Saudi Arabia, The Ceaseless Quest for Security," published last month by Harvard University Press...
...pursuit of happiness" for Millet is the quest for a new woman-based eroticism, the key to MacKinnon's view of sexuality is gender. A crude distinction one could make between the two structuralist conceptions is the exploitation of women as viewed in sexual vs. economic terms--which translates roughly to the difference between repression and oppression...
...protein, which the Harvard team named angiogenin, was isolated from human colon-cancer cells after a decade-long search financed by a grant from Monsanto. What partly slowed the quest was the fact that the protein is found in the body in only minuscule quantities. Even so, says Team Member James Riordan, angiogenin is so potent that it can induce blood vessels to form when it is present in tissue as only one part per quadrillion...
...world-weary traveller idly muses on the idea of calling his next book "The Accidental Tourist At Home." At one point, in lonely desperation, he considers faking a coronary just to feel the soothing touch of a human hand. Tyler's complex ironies offer no easy solution to the quest for home. Rather than bringing him neatly full circle back to familiar territory, Macon's odyssey leaves him in Oz. It is in this world of peculiar intimacies, where strangers become family and families remain strangers, that Tyler's remedy for homesickness offers Dorothy's ingenuous lesson that "home...