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Word: searchers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard comes Robert Frost, owner of a scintillating name in American poetry. Also Go Strawinsky, master of savage rhythms and colorful orchestrations, conceded by even his intellectual critics as one of the three most popular living composers. And finally I. A. Richards, propounder of impressive literary theories and leading searcher after values in this drifting generation. The total is a quite amazing addition to the list of big names sported by Harvard's catalogs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWINKLE, TWINKLE | 5/17/1939 | See Source »

...late John William Navin Sullivan was an able mathematician, a gifted and lucid interpreter of physics, a lover of music, a searcher for beauty in both music and science. A lonely and meditative man himself, he regarded Beethoven as the greatest of all musicians, Newton as the greatest of all scientists. His life of Beethoven is one of his best-known books. A few days before he died last August in Surrey, England, of disseminated sclerosis, he completed his Isaac Newton. Last week this book was published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sullivan's Newton | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...under a "high overcast," were four passengers, a co-pilot and pretty Hostess Gladys Witt, whose marital indecisions had been making headlines. When the plane never arrived, WAE launched a search which continued spasmodically until last week with the lure of a $1,000 reward. Fortnight ago a searcher on Lone Peak found some letters. Last week four men reached the scene of the crash almost simultaneously, agreed to share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Confetti on Lone Peak | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...French, bouncing with animation, gesturing with vehemence, this tanned, fox-bearded little man suggested a new mathematical approach to the great problem of a unified field theory which would embrace both the atom and the universe-a theory for which Professor Einstein has long been the No. i searcher. Roughly speaking, "non-affine" space is undistorted space. Dr. Cartan finds that some of the "vectors" with which Relativists play have a dual existence-in distorted Einstein space and in undistorted Euclidean space. These amphibian vectors may be links between cosmos and microcosmos. In Dr. Cartan's audience reporters could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Highbrows at Harvard | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...Guide Book see fit to revise it, it is strongly urged that they include hammer and chisel as essentials on any blind date. Venturing further, the day may come when a mass descent upon Radcliffe and Wellesley (with weapons) will remove this orthodontical veneer that has covered the female searcher after knowledge since time immemorial, and, oh happy day, render the feminine campus a joy forever. Arma virumque cano...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 10/16/1934 | See Source »

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