Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...home to her the full consciousness of the unwisdom of her policy. Perhaps it will but increase her defiance. Certainly the former probability is the most desirable; there are too many latent forces of literary and scientific thought and accomplishment in Germany to have them thrown away in useless pursuit of a rainbow's end. Were Germany to realize this, and make some attempt to free herself, as has Austria, from the grasp of Prussianism, not only she, but the world as well, would profit...
...does the publicity writer characterize Miss Hartley's novel. He shows in his choice of words a restraint quite unnatural to publicity writers. We finished the volume some hours ago, but it is no exaggeration to say that it has taken us since then to arrive, after a breathless pursuit of Anne through her illogical adventures, at the point at which the authoress leaves...
During his four years, the average undergraduate manages to cover a good deal of ground in the pursuit of that elusive thing known as "culture." He takes courses in languages, science, philosophy and the like, with perhaps a dash of-fine arts on the side. There is one department, however, that one, curiously enough, whose aesthetic value is perhaps the greatest of all, to which the undergraduate is too frequently a complete stranger. This is the Department of Music, without doubt one of the finest in any university in the country...
...restless at the inactivity in Boston of the position of a young doctor struggling to get practice he soon decided to enter the army as surgeon, and in 1885 was sent to the Mexican border. There he served under General Miles and more immediately under Captain Lawton in the pursuit of Geronimo and his Apache band. Owing to the shortage of line officers, but more particularly to his desire for active service, he acted temporarily as a line officer, and for the highest courage in that disheartening and dangerous pursuit was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Later...
...interest on the interplay of incident. To put William S. Hart on the stage and confine him almost exclusively to words, would be to revive the old bombastic melodrama, where, instead of seeing the hero jump onto his trusty horse and dash madly up and down mountain sides in pursuit of the villain, we should have the heroine gazing out a painted window from which she would turn now and then to gasp to us, "There he goes, there he goes, My God, My God, over a ditch, he's getting nearer, he's getting nearer ... ah.. my brave...