Word: quests
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...universe are dazzling, just wait until you explore the ones hidden inside your own head. In the 1960s, when human beings were first venturing into outer space, TIME explored those efforts and traveled with astronauts, through launches from Sputnik to Apollo and far beyond. Humanity is on a similar quest now, inward rather than outward, and just as readers decades ago came to count on us for news from the cosmos, so can today's readers look to us for dispatches from the brain. We will be putting together a team of reporters, writers, and scientists--our own brain trust...
...instead of one gives me a better shot at beating down an opposing mage, while spending hours wending through a haunted manse might win me a coveted staff. Also, unlike with old media, my choices affect people around me. I can form guilds, essentially virtual clubhouses, band together to quest for rare breastplate, recite the assorted lore of Vin Diesel or Chuck Norris, or simply hang out in front of the local inn doing the electric slide...
Because the University seals access to presidential search papers for 80 years, the most recent records available date from a very different era: the 1908 quest to replace retiring University President Charles W. Eliot. In that search, the Corporation—the University’s top governing body—selected A. Lawrence Lowell, a member of the Class of 1877 and a popular Government professor...
...shake-up of the German beer industry in the 1980s that inspired Bionade's inventor, Dieter Leipold, then master brewer at Ostheim's Privatbrauerei Peter, to quest for a new quaff. With younger German consumers increasingly choosing imports like Corona and Miller Lite over local beers, Leipold worried about the brewery's future. And there was more at stake than just business: it was family. He lived with the brewery's present owner, Sigrid Peter, now his wife, and acted as stepfather to her sons, Peter and Stephan Kowalsky...
...have caught the very essence of things, so that at 100 I will have reached heavenly mysteries. At 110, every point and line will be living." Monet spent the last decades of his life painting his water lilies, and then painting them again, until he lost his sight in quest of an elusive, transcendent perfection that might best be called Japanese...