Word: seek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Court, Harry Bridges will be back in his native Australia in a few months. He will have been sent there not by the democratic laws and procedure of the free land to which he emigrated two decades ago, but by the autocratic, terroristic decisions of law-makers who ostensibly seek to free the world of autocracy and terrorism...
...display at the local cinema is the umpteenth installment of the Hardy family saga. If you've liked its predecessors, you're sure to enjoy this one, too. This time Andrew Rooney goes out into the cold, cold world to seek his fame and fortune. At the end of a thirty-day trial period he is to report to his father as to whether he thinks he will continue working or take a four-year recess to go to college. We are happy to announce that he has decided in favor of an academic life. We are also happy...
...bells rang the alarm for approaching airplanes. The towns-people who crowded the narrow streets knew the alarm meant that something horrible would follow, but many of them had never seen an airplane. They milled about in hopeless confusion till a Catholic priest took charge and told them to seek refuge in cellars and dugouts...
...robbed" was the way one shapely miss from Sargent School expressed her feelings last night as approximately 30 of the phys-ed majors tried vainly to seek admittance into the-pool of the Indoor Athletic Building...
...fact-packed 43-page pamphlet, the Brookings Institution this week blasted the New Deal's price-control policies skyhigh. Chief factors in rising prices, said Brookings, are higher farm prices and higher wages. A price bill that does not seek to control them is just no good...