Word: quests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quest to land a national political convention, the rules of campaign propriety are routinely sacrificed...
Gautum Mukunda's flawed analysis of the historian's craft misinterprets both a student's moral burdens and what it means to be an American (Opinion, Sept. 28). In the first place, the study of history is not a quest for moralistic lessons that great people can later draw on as inspiration for their own feats. It is the quest for the truth of what happened in the past. Great people tend to draw their own lessons. Mukunda's jingoistic interpretation of the American ideal obscures this quest for truth and limits it to the American sphere of intellectual tradition...
...fashion statements as for her athletic exploits. At the 1988 Olympic trials, she wore a purple body suit without a left pant leg. For the Olympics of that same year, she painted three of her fingernails red, white and blue, and a fourth one gold to symbolize her quest...
...game may not have gone as smoothly asplanned, but the final result was the one theCrimson wanted. Harvard has taken the first stepin its quest for a fourth consecutive Ivy Leaguetitle...
...game also marks the beginning of the Ivy League season for Harvard, making a win doubly important. A defeat of Columbia would be the perfect way for the Crimson to begin its quest for its fourth straight Ivy title...