Word: seeks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When a newspaperman strives for "objectivity"--an impossible goal if this means total detachment from his subject matter--what he truly seeks is fairness. Mailer's approach, with a couple of exceptions, in no way is intended to describe impartially the plight of human beings on the wrong (police) side of the barriers. Newspaper reporters do seek this sort of impartiality, or lack of bias--or, if you like, omniscience...
...come from Kilson, assistant professor of government, who terms the courses "racially bigoted and disgustingly anti-intellectual." In a letter to the Crimson, Kilson made this point: "Blissfull unaware that their bigoted and paranoid outlook makes shambles of scholarship and learning, the black critics of Social Sciences 5 seek to reduce the course to a platform for black nationalistic propaganda...
...Memory Drum. The company has a long tradition of statistical work, reaching back to horse-and-bug-gy days. The railroad had just pushed across Michigan when a young New Jerseyan named Ralph Lane Polk arrived in Detroit to seek his fortune peddling various patent medicines. He found that the Iron Horse, steaming along at speeds of 40 m.p.h., had changed the world of traveling salesmen, enabling them to visit merchants in several towns in one day. Polk compiled a Gazeteer for Michigan in 1870, listing the names and addresses of shopkeepers within walking distance of railroad depots...
Harvard travels to Princeton Saturday to seek its seventh straight victory of the season against an opponent that features three of the Ivy League's top eight rushers and the nearly extinct single wing offense...
...have never sought nor posssesed any special influence on these matters in the Harvard Establishment, do not seek nor possess such influence now, and have no intention of doing so in the future. I have always related to racial matters here as an individual who happens to have a scholarly, intellectual, and personal interest in them. I have always been open and honest in relating to these matters and, if I may say so, have been most liberal with my time, energy and small income in doing...