Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possibly independently owned, in a building near the 15th hole of the Cold Stream golf course. Six moonshiners were arrested in the Belmont mansion, where they had preferred to live in the less elaborate servants' quarters. None of these was regarded by the raiders as the ringleader. A search for him began as well as an investigation to find out how the 'leggers-who had taken every precaution for secrecy save that of muffling the alcohol fumes, which could be detected half a mile away-had got access to the old Belmont place...
...first gun of the day was fired when Lampoon editors laid siege to the CRIMSON building at 5.15 o'clock in the morning and commenced a futile search for the morning's papers which they intended to stamp "Compliments of the Lampoon." Disappointed and infuriated by their failure to find the sheets which had previously been hidden, their numbers now increased to ten, the invaders took their revenge by binding and gagging J. M. Boyd '35, CRIMSON editor, who was at the time working in the building. In spite of the gallant attempt at rescue made by R. P. Buch...
...address traced the history of research from the time of Francis Bacon to the sixteenth century to the present day. Bacon was the discoverer of scientific research as we now know it, such research, Whitney emphasized, is an organized and continuous search for new truth, and he used a striking example when he referred to the motto of Harvard University "Veritas." Veritas is the ultimate truth and he remarked that research has for centuries been chipping away at "veritas" and will continue to do so as long as any undiscovered truth remains. The problem, he said, is an endless adventure...
...interested in no particular subject but has a craving for a smattering of almost anything there is one course in the University that is perfectly able to cope with such a vast intellectual search. That course is Anthropology...
...much is a matter of history; these two men caught something of the spirit of the fragments of time in which they lived, and they directed in some part the course of events. Was not Henry Adams, ironic, questioning, dubious, ill directed in his search for a manifest destifly as much the monarch--a suitable Adams word--among his contemporaries? But on this or on any other philosophic aspect of his subject Mr. Adams refuses to speculate. Only once, after carefully heading his bet, does he launch out into the realm of personal speculation. "I may," he says, "be quite...