Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...progress of diplomatic negotiations to permit the search and seizure of rum-runners within an hour's sailing distance of our coasts began to bear results last week...
...principality of Tammany, Government of Manhattan's Democrats, solved the problem of its search for a Prince to succeed the late boss Charles F. Murphy. The Prince Tammany wanted could not be had, and no man who could be had was the Prince Tammany wanted. The solution of the problem was simple. The principality dissolved itself into an oligarchy...
...possible to discover for one's self a great deal of this treasure, in histories of the University, in odd writings of many observers, in accounts by graduates themselves. But this requires time and ingenious delving into curious volumes; and while the few who have taken the pains to search have been richly rewarded, few have sought, and still fewer have learned. An erudite and devoted Society, however, such as the Harvard Memorial Society, could easily stimulate interest, not merely in a selected group, but in the College at large by retailing some of the more choice stories...
...hitherto undisclosed Chinese Buddhist chapel of very ancient origin has been discovered by Mr. Langdon Warner, the first American to ever undertake, on behalf of an American university, a search for ancient art in western China. Mr. Warner was formerly Director of the Pennsylvania museum, but is now a member of the Fine Arts Faculty of the University and on the staff of the Fogg Art Museum. He has just returned from a year's trip on foot along the 3000 year old Indo-Chinese route...
...were out to find what we could about ancient Chinese Buddhist art and not on a trip for plunder. The conditions and surroundings in which these ancient treasures are found are almost as important in our search for knowledge of the ancient Chinese civilization as the art treasures themselves. It is regrettable that so much of the Chinese art imported to this country in recent years has been removed from its native surroundings without accurate records of the place from where it was taken...