Word: seek
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...abolishing or revising the Neutrality laws to give the President a free hand in foreign affairs began saying that Franklin Roosevelt's next step, to prove the purity of his motive in making his foreign policy so momentous, should be a clear disclaimer of any intention to seek a third term...
Last week while Britain sent her Ambassador back to Berlin (see p. 22) to seek peace, she busied herself at home with preparations...
...year thrusts before his students an examination requiring careful and categorical organization. But how can a student categorize if he has never been taught to do so? The exceptional one can; the average one is forced, in many cases against his will, to seek assistance elsewhere...
...best of the Federal Writers' Project's books, The Oregon Trail describes the highway as it is now (near the crest of the Sherman Range, Wyo., 8,835 ft. up, it warns: "Blizzards frequent in this vicinity, October to April; usually come very suddenly; seek shelter at once."). Its best accomplishment is its picture of the Oregon Trail's magnificent past-a picture communicated by rare photographs of wagon trains, railway construction camps, settlers' cabins, scalped hunters (see cut), as well as by new accounts of the pioneers who moved like a tidal wave across...
...council does not know the facts and apparently has made little effort to seek them out. Example: They say, "At present it costs the H.A.A. close to $10,000 to support intercollegiate tennis and squash squads. . . ." This is, although I am sure not deliberately, a definite misstatement of fact. The facts are: (a) The $10,000 includes all coaches' salaries as well as intercollegiate expenses. (b) Over half the members of the squads play House squash and tennis. Please charge $5000 to the Houses. (c) To retain the coaches and eliminate intercollegiate events would save not more than...