Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shoals and the local police authorities in that place instead of affording Peel proper protection in the fulfillment of his duties deported him to another part of the State. We insist that the organizers and members of the United Textile Workers of America be adequately protected in the legitimate pursuit of organization activities and demand that South Carolina see to it that the constitutional rights of textile workers are as completely and effectively safeguarded as are the privileges and rights of the manufacturers of the state." Governor Richards wired back: ". . . Impertinent...
...time hardly more sketchy and grandiloquent than The Oppressed, where the daughter of the Spanish High Constable to the Netherlands is in love with the leader of the oppressed Flemings. The photography might be 20 years old and so might the sword fights, the kisses in jail, the pursuit on horseback, the Inquisition, the pardon delivered at the scaffold by the king's messenger. Only good shot: Raquel Meller crossing herself in bed when her dog, startled by a flash of lightning, begins to bark...
...stabs the stag and thrills all the ladies, Molinoff is discovered in his cook capacity by Françoise's family. A fatalist giving a dark, hollow laugh at his fate, Molinoff trundles off down the road, his back dwindling in the dust. null who sets off in hot pursuit on her bicycle, is downed by the wind, scrapes her pretty nose...
Portugal, both its literature and its history, is another country for which the Harvard Library is being placed in a position where it is prepared to meet all comers. Hon. John B. Stetton, Jr. 06, has made this his especial pursuit for several years, and he was particularly fortunate last summer in securing a very valuable private library in Portugal. This makes the Harvard collection a close rival to that of the King of Portugal in historical treasures, and in early Portuguese literature, while for the greatest of Portuguese writers, Camoens, Harvard's preeminence is said now to be secure...
...been said, and justly, that the pursuit of science at Harvard is "orientation in a field of force." The writer has had ample opportunity in four years to become convinced that this comparison to the magnetic compass is not only true but that it constitutes a real fault in the scheme of things...