Word: seeks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then again, the Junior Dances of recent years have proved very conclusively that a fair cross-section of the class is not represented. Consequently, in the event that the Prom is not even a class gathering, those who seek a lively evening of entertainment might well follow their own instincts and spend their money to greater advantage elsewhere. Sincerely yours, Kenneth T. Howe...
...paints an appalling picture of the attitude of the young men who sing "For God, for country and for Yale." They are, it appears, "on the make." Before going to college they begin looking for prominent roommates; at college they arise at 5 o'clock in the morning to seek advertising for "The Yale News," and they spend their week ends on Long Island and Park Avenue, ostensibly dancing with debutantes but really seeking the acquaintance of prominent business men. The goal of undergraduate life at Yale, according to Mr. Pringle, is to make a final club, having achieved which...
...SACRED DUTY TO PRESERVE THE UNITY OF THE STATE BY EVERY MEANS IN MY POWER. TO SEEK TO REMOVE THESE ABUSES BY FRESH ELECTIONS WOULD HAVE BEEN A WASTE OF TIME AND VALUABLE ENERGY. BY SUCH METHODS WE HAVE ALREADY LOST MANY PRECIOUS YEARS. WE MUST TRY OTHER METHODS AND TREAD NEW PATHS...
...China the interminably postponed program equivalent to "Farm Relief" is what Chinese call "Abrogation of China's Unequal Treaties with the Powers." Every succeeding Government for decades has promised to seek revision or abrogation of the "Unequal Treaties;" but only the new Nationalist Government at Nanking has taken actual steps...
...Argentine to improve local health: Certain night-flying moths there fly to the eyes of horses and suck the tears that their attacks cause. The same moths will settle on the skin of a sweating horse and drink at the salty perspiration. Hence, Dr. Shannon believes, the moths seek salt in the tears also...