Word: searcher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Frank P. Blair, Chicago diver, last week adjusted his helmet, slowly submerged himself in Lake Michigan. With careful, heavy movements he prowled around the bottom, searched through jumbled cans, tires, bottles. Diver Blair is a good searcher. He it was who recovered from the muddy Jackson Park Lagoon the typewriter which helped incriminate Murderers Leopold and Loeb in 1924. When he emerged last week, he brought up two heavy objects. They were counterfeit seals of the University of Chicago and Northwestern University...
...Bartlett has lent his well-known Still Life by Cezanne from the Birch-Bartlett Collection in the Art Institute of Chicago. In this, as in the landscape ("Tournant de Route a Auvers") lent by Mr. John Nicholas Brown, Cezanne is shown as the searcher of new paths and rhythms. The modelling is done by means of colour...
Nowhere in the volume does Mr. Parsons dogmatize on debatable questions. The searcher after facts may find little satisfaction in the fair-minded discussions of divergent leading theories of problems in science, political history, and literature. There are no explanations offered; there is no padding of embarrassing gaps...
...annual meeting, last fortnight, of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia-founded by Benjamin Franklin-Dr. Alfred Fabian Hess of Manhattan, famed vitamin-searcher, revealed results of his latest researches in the study of Vitamin D, which everyone knows is the one whose presence in the diet prevents rickets. Searcher Hess had found Vitamin D in fish-eggs, chicken-eggs, snake-eggs, as material for the early development of the species...
Perhaps the fact that the Transcript does not appear until after all the morning papers have explained in great detail the features of the games and practices, that makes Mr. Carens a searcher after side-lights. It would be patently ridiculous for him to write a play-by-play account of the Saturday games, or even discuss the strategy of the rival elevens, on Monday afternoon after all the others papers had done this. Thus it is that Mr. Carnes is driven to seeking boudoir interviews with the Crimson athletes, the recording of quaint statistics, and the unearthing of other...