Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Buddha when the old one died was always a trouble. It involved waiting several years and then finding a baby who would proclaim his identity by recognizing certain suitable symbols. By 1907 Bhutan's lamas, grown fat and indolent with centuries of rule, got too lazy to hunt for a new Raja. The government was taken over by a local governor, the Tongsa Penlop, a fighting politician who got himself elected Gyalpo (i.e., King) of the Land of the Thunder-dragon. Knighted by the British, who understood such ambition, Sir Ugyen Wangchuk ruled for 19 years and died...
Meat for the Mink. For generations, Newfoundlanders have gone out in their frail boats to hunt the potheads, which pursue squid into Trinity Bay. It was a haphazard venture until Norwegian Captain Iversen settled near Dildo in 1946 and opened a factory to render blubber and process the greasy meat prized by mink ranchers for the gloss it gives to the animal fur. To increase the whale catch, he raised money for the Arctic Skipper and a sister ship, Arctic Venture, to go farther out into the bay and herd more potheads shoreward...
Urging a write-in donation to the United Community Services Red Feather Drive, Pearson Hunt, Professor of Business Administration, announced yesterday that his committee would send letters to all undergraduates asking them to write in "Red Feather" on the Combined Charities card during the November 10 to 17 drive...
Stressing that students have responsibilities to both the local community as well as to student fund drives, Hunt, who is chairman of the University's Red Feather drive, said "student aid is a community matter, and in return student charities should not monopolize student interest...
Carl Sapers '53, chairman of the Combined Charities, commented that Hunt' decision to send out letters "is the proper way for a charity not on the card this year to urge students to contribute to its organization...