Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Douglas W. Hunt '55, president of the Phillips Brooks House Association, last night charged that his group will be faced with financial ruin if endowment funds are turned over to outside religious groups...
...Hunt will attempt to stop efforts of Cornelius D Hastie '52, graduate secretary of Brooks House, to open house endowments and office space to major religious groups, in spite of tentative approval of such a plan by his cabinet last Wednesday...
...were imported from the South last year and now find themselves out of a job. Thinking, perhaps, that he wasn't fully understood, he drew a little analogy: "Personally, I like bird dogs better than kennel-fed dogs," he said. "The bird dogs like to get out and hunt for their food, but the kennel dogs just sit on their haunches and yelp...
When Donald Bartlett, an oil-company worker, and six of his friends in Bakersfield, Calif. decided to hunt for uranium, they did it the easy way. They bought a $495 scintillator and drove along the country roads in Kern County around Bakersfield. One day last December, as they drove along the Walker Pass road through the southern Sierra Mountains, the needle of the scintillator began to "go crazy." Bartlett and his friends began to "go scrambled out, soon found the reason: a big granite outcropping studded with pockets of radioactive ore (autunite). When they tunneled into the mountainside, the Sunday...
Last week the treasure hunt in oil-and-cotton-rich Kern County had reached feverish proportions, as shoe clerks, tin smiths, bankers, doctors, and Hollywood bit-players filed some 200 claims in the county recorder's office. Thousands more rode into the hills in everything from jeeps to Cadillacs; in their spare time, even housewives hopped into the family car and cruised hopefully about the area...