Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three thousand feet below, terrace on terrace, lay the storybook village of Grindelwald, famed as a skier's paradise. The girl whose level, blue-grey eyes surveyed this prospect may or may not have been awed by the majesty of the view. What she said was reverent, appreciative, American: "Scenic as hell!" Last week her interest in the Grindel-wald view was more technical than esthetic. She was looking at a slalom course: a series of precipitous pitches and inclines, outlined by guide poles, designed to test the racing mettle of the world's best skiers...
...School Invitation Tournament. This tourney, sponsored by near-by Lawrenceville, brings about 16 private school New England hockey teams to Princeton's Baker Rink for a round-robin affair. Princeton gets into the act not only by providing the rink, but by putting up the schoolboy skaters at the Prospect Street eating clubs. Every effort is made by the Princeton sports hierarchy to insure that when the athletes to the North. Old Nassau will not be forgotten--say in June, when the lad picks his college. It is not coincidental that several Exeter stars bound for Harvard last year changed...
...rules committee of the National Collegiate Athletic Association opens a three-day meeting today with only little prospect of a change in the two-platoon system. Although the free substitution rule is near the head of the agenda, it was passed by the full NCAA convention in Cincinnati...
...pilfered box, he was speechless for 30 seconds. Then Mr. McCleary reported to Matt Ridgway, and the sparks began to fly. Ridgway called the Honor Guard's captain on the carpet, ordered him to 1) search out the culprits, 2) get rid of them. Faced with the prospect of discipline for the whole company unless they confessed, Smith, King and Branch confessed...
...pretty sure that every amateur has his price. In Australia, Melbourne Promoter Ted Humphrey figured that ?40,000 ($89,600) was about right to buy the Aussies' No. 1 star, Frank Sedgman. Top U.S. Professional Jack Kramer also made his sales pitch to Sedgman, dangled before him the prospect of a money-making world tour...