Word: seeks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...governed merely by personal taste. The enforcement of the regulation concerning the wearing of caps and gowns is in the hands of the proctor, who always takes two men with him popularly called "bulldogs" to catch any culprits. It is something of a game of hide-and-seek for the bulldogs cannot fine a student unless they catch him off college grounds...
...speeded her tiny car up to 25 miles per hour. An official of the firm now marketing "The Taxlessmobile" hinted that several young, pert, pretty female demonstrators had failed to evoke police reprimands for driving without a license. So a hard-faced, middle-aged woman went out to seek trouble, find publicity. The "Taxlessmobile" has three bicycle wheels, mud guards, lamps, windshield, rear view mirror, steering wheel, collapsible...
...Nicholas, be Tsar!" But spirit was not in the weakling. When the Empire collapsed Maria Feodorovna removed to the Crimea, later departing on a British gunboat to seek sanctuary with her sister, the Dowager Queen-Empress Alexandra...
...events, they somehow, fail to hit the mark. The opening tale, from which the collection draws its name, is an intimation of a desire of the author's to get away from the middle western background and attitude which featured his novel. In the future he will seek new fields to exploit and will let alone the Middle West which he believes is fast losing its character...
Hearing the above quoted unequivocal, politico-religious dicta, a militant partisan or a non-partisan might seek their source. He would find these statements in The Presbyterian Magazine. He would find that the author of the pronouncements is Dr. Hugh Kelso Walker, who, as moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A.* occupies Presbyterianism's highest eminence...