Word: seeking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Members of the Harvard Mountaineering Club are to make a trip to Intervale, N. H., to seek out problems in snow and ice climbing, next week...
...seek isolation for its own sake . . . but we cherish our position of unprejudiced detachment because through that means we can best meet our world obligations...
Yale's President James Rowland Angell announced last week that by October. 1930, Yale would have a new $1,500,000 building to house an "Institute of Human Relations." Taking all knowledge for its province, this institute will seek to correlate the branches of learning, to produce a graduate super-informed, trained and inspired to analyze and minister to individuals, to social groups...
...Second is the matter of one government's claims against another. This has been since time immemorial a fertile ground for strife. A foreigner, for example, is lynched by a mob in America. What is his government to do? Make objections through diplomatic channels, of course, and seek redress in the customary manner. But what if our officials politely but firmly fall to be blamed, or that any compensation is necessary? Then the consequences are not always happy! Were there a recognized universal law which could be applied, much time could be saved and dangerous complications averted...
...Christina was in her youth a member of an Austrian order, and used to plight her vows twelve months at a time to Jesus the Christ. She had intended to become permanently the Savior's bride, but in the nick of time King Alfonso XII of Spain arrived to seek a spouse at the court of her father's cousin, Emperor Franz Josef, and the young Prinzessin's destiny was altered...