Word: searchers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alaska's uppermost tip, Point Barrow, Captain George Hubert Wilkins, blackbearded Australian soldier of fortune, searcher by air for an undiscovered continent, warmed up the Wright Whirlwind motor of a Stinson plane by leaving an oil heater in the hangar all night. The thermometer was at 50 below 0. Buckets of hot oil poured into the motor next morning sped the getaway. With an offshore wind under tail, Captain Wilkins and his pilot, hardbitten Carl Ben Eielson, steered 25° west of north, and vanished out over the Arctic Ocean. The plan was to fly thus for six hours, then turn...
...think that word 'saint' should be ruled out of present life," he said. "It is too sacred a word to be lightly applied to anybody, much less to one like myself, who claims only to be a humble searcher after truth...
Anathema is the Inquiring Spirit, the Searcher after Truth, who goes to the gates of Heaven to ask God what his weights and measures are for determining Justice. When God tells him that he would not understand, that the divine values are too inscrutable, Anathema goes, back to earth vowing to show the irony and misery of God's justice to his creature Man. He picks out a Jew, David Leizer, and bestows upon him an inheritance of two million dollars, which he exhorts him to give away to the poor for the glory of God. David does...
...official answer from the faculty of Chicago University does not consider these points. Instead, the objection is raised that "the type of student who would register for such a course probably would not be the serious minded one. He most likely would be a searcher after the sensational and salacious" Surely the faculty has for once misjudged the students...
...such a course be harder than the present science courses harder than the present science courses harder than History 1 and Philosophy A, but let it be profitable to the stupidly maligned searcher after general knowledge. J. A. ABBOTT...