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SHANGHAI. Friday--Police aided by U.S. Marines and British in infantrymen today began a house-to-house search of the Angic-American area of the International Settlement to round up suspected Chinese Nationalist terrorists...
...climbed in search of blander prospect...
...jugged again, this time in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, convicted of stabbing six Negroes in a fight over a can of whiskey. But again Lead Belly's minstrelsy came to his rescue. Texas' eminent Folklorist John A. Lomax, poking about the jails and slums of Louisiana in search of folk ballads, heard Lead Belly sing, found him a walking encyclopedia of salty Negro "sinful songs" and ballads. At Lomax' suggestion Lead Belly was pardoned again...
...search of some common bond in an era when compulsory courses had already disappeared that President Lowell projected the House system in order that men of diverse interests might meet across the dinner table and commune. And it was in search of what he called "the principle that is needed to unify our liberal arts tradition" that President Conant three years ago wistfully suggested that "it would be desirable for every college graduate to have a knowledge of the cultural history of the United States in the broadest sense of the term...
...program has consisted of four parts: the Bliss Prize examinations; public lectures on aspects of American History; open lectures in the Houses and Union; and weekly discussion groups. Less than twenty men took the prize examinations. The public lectures were heavily attended, but largely by Cambridge ladies in search of culture. The open House lectures, aided by intriguing titles and movies, often drew more than a hundred undergraduates. But at the weekly discussion groups, the core of the plan, where physicists and philologists were to be inspired to search for the roots of American culture, attendance was very small...