Word: seek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which should force a substantial number of girls to live in a situation they find intolerable. Mrs. Bunting has been unwise in her decision to embark on an ambitious campaign to raise more funds for a project which many students bitterly oppose. It would be preferable for her to seek additional funds to ensure that girls could move off- campus without ruining Radcliffe's finances...
...more actively involved: S.D.S. members are not in student government or other positions of leadership. It was we squares who spearheaded and supported the first "Festival of Ideas," which brought, among others, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Robert Theobald and John D. ("Jay") Rockefeller IV so we could seek further than just kick at the status quo. Our head football coach's interest in the students transcends the goal post. At a leadership conference, Jim Carlin said, "Don't be against something, be for something...
...McMaster University before coming to Riverside, firmly believes that "a theology that isn't preached has something lacking." He argues that the Biblical message has not lost its relevance and provides an antidote to what he calls "the new melancholy"-exemplified by the dropouts from life who seek salvation in LSD. The Christian faith, he says, echoing G. K. Chesterton, "has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried...
Solvay will also remain in family control for the foreseeable future. Meeting in Brussels, the 1,800 partners agreed with courtly Baron Rene Boel, their managing director, that accelerated technological progress and increased competition made it necessary to seek public capital. They voted to ante up $40 million more themselves. Eventually Solvay partners will reap a four-for-one stock split, and since not all of the new shares will be fully negotiable, the family will remain the biggest shareholder in the chemical complex that grew from Ernest Solvay's 106-year-old process for making chemical soda into...
Late in November of 1913, Ambrose Bierce, 71, afflicted with asthma and rue, crossed the border into Mexico. He had declared a journalist's interest in the Mexican revolution and planned to seek out Pancho Villa. Around Christmas Day that year, he sent a letter home from Chihuahua City. It was the last that anyone heard from Ambrose Bierce. He vanished...