Word: seeking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Yesterday the University entertained as its guests prominent members of the Armenian Mission to the United States. Headed by General Bagratooni, this mission has come to America to seek support for the newly established Armenian Republic, which is once more threatened by the Turks...
...reason is not far to seek. We have been getting our opera through foreign media--we have been subsidizing alien directors, conductors, and a thousand others to give us our music. They know their business, from their own viewpoint, at least. They know that once the fetish of opera sung in an uncomprehensible language is destroyed, their day is over...
...That is why for their own selfish interest, these foreigners discourage opera in English, discourage American singers, deny to young American voices a fair chance, and seek only to strengthen the strangle hold that aliena now have upon the production of opera in this country, where opera pays the largest rewards of any country in the world...
...Government will then seek new men to overtake England in the progress of flying. Their will be no scarcity of pilots; thousands will learn to loop and dive if given the chance. But places for good aeronautical engineers will be more difficult to fill. Until the demand for them is satisfied. America cannot lead in aviation...
...been little need to compete with foreign markets. Europe has sought our raw materials, and our manufactured goods for export have been limited. Hence our large export trade has grown without effort on our part. Now that manufactured goods are being produced in such large quantities, we must seek markets in competition with other manufacturing nations...