Word: pursuit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were the opinions of Alvin Saunders Johnson, director of Manhattan's campusless New School for Social Research, which had just opened for its 25th year of adult education. Director Johnson was confidently looking forward to a day when war veterans might want to dedicate spare evenings to the pursuit of culture...
...inland side of the column got a chance to cheer their favorites in a sulky race that seemed to be in full swing at a track which the marchers passed. Girls leaned from the grandstand and waved while the column pounded past, and several small boys rode bicycles in pursuit of the company...
There is no "world's best fighter plane." A mediocre low-altitude pursuit ship can give short shrift to a crack medium fighter caught hedgehopping. But for nailing enemy bombers and escorting friendly ones at really high altitudes (25,000 to 40,000 ft.), it looks as if the U.S. can now claim the title. So say the pilots who fly the Thunderbolt...
...committee regrets the earlier [Army] decisions which concentrated so large a portion of our production on a plane which, although usable, is at best a second choice. The North American P-51 [Mustang], characterized by both the British and the Army Air Forces as the most aerodynamically perfect pursuit plane in existence, was in production in 1941. . . . It would have been preferable to increase production of Mustangs, decrease production of Curtiss Warhawks." (P40 production at Curtiss-Wright's Buffalo plant was scheduled for full capacity this year, said Wright's General Manager William Davey...
...that the HARVARD SERVICE NEWS has extended its publication to semi-weekly proportion, it seems that each Friday I am to be given the opportunity of expressing certain of my reactions to life, liberty and the pursuit of Ensigns who have failed to certify their copies to be true. Also, all news items, advice-to-the-lovelorn (with reservations, of course) and et cetera, are to be handled and mishandled here...