Word: search
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Policeman and officer searched diligently. Two hundred yards from the empty sentry box they discovered a rifle, and the huge fur headpiece of the sentinel, lying like some dead beast in the bushes. Detectives from Scotland Yard joined the search, but no trace of the scarlet-coated, white-belted sentry could be found...
...only to be dragged back to the slough of human passions. The human types chosen to epitomize extant evolutionary types are the horse-faced woman of London society; the young aviator who just misses loving his machine more than his woman; Martha, earthy female; Patrick, vivid sensualist in restless search of the meaning of life. By ordinary standards, their story is howling melodrama, but in a setting of cosmic proportions it fades to the decent outlines of engrossing human narrative. Lost in the eerie privacy of a London fog, Ann and Patrick recognize that their life-long friendship is love...
...that the relatively large number of Rhodes men at Oxford has begun to lend a definite color to the place. The "American Quarter" atmosphere no doubt has a tendency to antagonize the true born Englishman and certainly there have been many Americans who have deliberately gone elsewhere in their search for an environment more genuinely native than that afforded by an institution than that afforded by an institution which harbors two hundred Rhodes Scholars. By allowing the latter the privilege of individual choice of a University, this evil will be greatly reduced and at the same time the recipient...
Beyond the U. S. coast line lie three bodies of water: 1) from the shore to the 3-mile limit indisputably under U. S. jurisdiction; 2) from the 3-mile to the 12-mile limit, claimed by the U. S. for "search and seizure" under the 1922 Tariff Act and roughly coextensive with the "one hour's sailing" distance granted under the U. S. ship liquor treaty with Great Britain; 3) the high seas beyond...
Stars from the fraternity and Freshman divisions of the annual University swimming meet, as well as upperclassmen who have not yet competed, will gather this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock at the Big Tree Pool in search of the Harvard championships for the year...