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Word: seeker (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...started. The recent outburst of summer sun (followed by the weekend's icy blasts, fellow rebels), brought out the "beach boy" complex in some of the unit. Henry J. Shellar (the Bruin) was seen sunning his tremendous torso last week. Max (the Operator) Richards looms also as a tan seeker...

Author: By Pearson Twins, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 4/17/1945 | See Source »

Bill was a true seeker after knowledge. His burning power of pure rationalization often startled a listener out of his skin. He never posed or preached. But he seemed to invite the tormenting ridicule of many who could not understand him, and he was sensitive. Had conditions been different, the contemporary world might have been a gainer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 21, 1944 | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

...department. Those who are able to take this advantage can get a degree on 13 College courses and one at Summer School. The reason why the Summer School course has been specifically required under all these plans is because the Faculty feels that a three-year degree-seeker needs the extra College time for added Tutorial work. If he did not have this time, his Tutorial would be the first thing to suffer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Acceleration Program Will Offer Three Year Degrees | 9/25/1941 | See Source »

...Male Animal" and have not stretched the comedy of the play to a point where it becomes farce. Conrad Nagel, in the lead role of a youngish college instructor befallen victim to a Red-baiting campaign, interprets with keen feeling the predicament of the man who finds that the seeker of truth must travel alone and that the lonely path is hard to follow. As the "half-witted, half-baked halfback," Edmond Ryan fills a difficult role more than adequately. And Irving Locke gives a performance equal to the achievements of Walter Brennan on the screen in his role...

Author: By E. G., | Title: PLAYGOER | 9/24/1941 | See Source »

Perched in his San Simeon splendor, Mr. Hearst was supposed to be hopping mad. This young Orson Welles had made for RKO an insulting movie about his life called Citizen Kane. Led by his official ministress to the movie capital, Columnist Lolly Parsons, many a Hearst favor-seeker sent word to The Chief that they could fix everything. Soon the machinery of Hollywood pressure began to throttle Citizen Kane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Kane Continued | 3/31/1941 | See Source »

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