Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...desire in any way to limit me and would gladly waive the request if I considered it improper. . . . I suggested that if he could find a Latin script typewriter I would write the cable immediately in his office. . . . There followed the extraordinary procedure of Stalin personally conducting a search for the typewriter (and waiting) after . . . employes had departed for their suppers, for a reporter to finish his story...
Unable to arouse C.R. Apted '03, superintendent of care takers. The officers summoned the watchman of the Business School who secured the building. Plain clothesman Frank White, after a search of the premises, declared nothing had been lost...
...management, was in Bay Shore with his mother. Charles Victor Bob, missing mining promoter (TIME, Oct. 27), surrendered to the District Attorney of New York, related an Odyssey of wanderings which had taken him to Phoenix, Ariz., Los Angeles, Mexico City, by train, airplane and automobile in search of the Golden Fleece of new capital. Only when it was learned (last fortnight) that he was ready to surrender, was a warrant for his arrest actually issued. Criminal charges, civil suits, Federal prosecution face...
College no longer means a four year search for knowledge; it has become more nearly a social convention. President Hutchins in an attempt to restore to college education its former prestige has transformed the University of Chicago. He frankly admits that his plan is an experiment and that, like all experiments, time alone can prove its worth. But there are several elements of the idea that can eliminate the difficulties of the present system...
...Cake" is a satiric fantasy about the hectic search for happiness in modern life. It deals with a woman whose seven husbands have left her wealth, but who have prevented her from getting the means to gain the experience which she seeks in the far corners of the earth. The play has never been professionally produced, but was given some time ago by the Experimental Players in Pasadena, California...