Word: prescott
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Peter H. Olden Prescott, Ariz...
...December, the Lowthers' pyramid started falling apart. In an apparent attempt to gain another base for securing grant money, Lowther tried to take over tiny (445 students) Prescott College, an experimental school in Arizona. The college was $440,000 in debt and on the verge of bankruptcy. Thus, when Lowther agreed to pay the school's operating costs in return for control of its board and operating capital, the college thought it had found a savior and tentatively agreed to the deal. But soon $105,000 in foundation checks to the college bounced, and-for the first time...
Robin E. Piehl Prescott, Ariz...
...beached mammals had no food in their stomachs and were suffering from serious infestations of parasitic worms in their middle ears and sinuses. According to Marine Biologists James G. Mead of the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of Natural History in Washington and John H. Prescott of Boston's New England Aquarium, the worms had apparently been taken in along with meals of fish or squid. Once entrenched, they may have interfered with the whales' highly sensitive, sonar-like echo-location system, which enables them to spot schools offish and other objects. The whales' hearing...
Understanding this display of exhibitionism is difficult. The motive for it is not clear. In the last paragraphs of the book, Prescott tells of his great aunt describing him by saying "you are used to thinking a long time about things and keeping them to yourself." Perhaps that is true, but it is unfortunate that Prescott did not keep these things to himself indefinitely. They certainly are not fit to be read...