Word: searchingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After a nation-wide search, the New York Youth Symphony selected Samuel T. Wong '84, currently a Harvard medical student and freshman proctor, as its music director for the 1988-1989 season...
...appointees who specialize in the "softer" fields, in particular, may bring new vitality to the part of the department in which students seem most interested. Professor of Psychology Stephen M. Kosslyn, who heads the search committee for the senior post in the field of perception, says six scholars are currently being considered for the position. "We hope to have an offer out this semester," he says...
...search for a senior professor who specializes in cognitive psychology is also nearing completion, according to Estes, who chairs that search committee. "With luck we might have some news within a month or so," Estes says...
...hunt for a house began about three years ago, when Mrs. Reagan's friends Betsy Bloomingdale and Marion Jorgensen began a surreptitious search in the area. But word got around the real estate circuit, and the women were besieged by eager brokers. When a social acquaintance of Jorgensen's telephoned her to say that her elderly, recently widowed niece might want to part with her St. Cloud home, Jorgensen and Bloomingdale found what they -- and the Reagans -- had been looking for. In August 1986, Wall Management quietly bought the house and leased it back to the widow, who has since...
...14th God-King of Tibet was born in a cowshed in the tiny farming village of Takster in 1935. When he was two, a search party of monks, led to his small home by a corpse that seemed to move, a lakeside vision and the appearance of auspicious cloud formations, identified him as the new incarnation of Tibet's patron god. Two years later, after passing an elaborate battery of tests, the little boy was taken amid a caravan of hundreds into the capital of Lhasa, "Home of the Gods." There he had to live alone with his immediate elder...