Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover party left its island headquarters and motored 35 miles southward on the mainland to Angel Fish Creek. Two days of deep-sea fishing off the Florida Keys were in prospect. Though the actual angling would be done from small boats, two yachts served as living and sleeping quarters. One was the Amitie, owned by Capitalist Joseph H. Adams whose Belle Isle home, adjoining the Penney estate, shelters the Hoover press entourage. The other was the Saunterer, owned by Banker Jeremiah Milbank of Manhattan, Eastern Republican Treasurer during the cam paign. Banker Milbank was on board...
...Bullfinch, and Abbott. It is not my purpose to criticize the work of this capable firm (although they have designed a second story for the new gymnasium which seem like an afterthought instead of an integral part of the building), but I do believe that any firm with the prospect of eleven million dollars of work for an institution should devote a considerable time to the completed future project, and not allow objections to the cost on the part of the University to be sufficient cause for waiving a better plan. Objections of such sort can be diplomatically overcome...
...Such a prospect would not have appealed to many former Pontiffs, but the present Holy Father, Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, was an agile athlete and a daring Alpinist in his cold youth. Though never a fancy skater or ski jumper, His Holiness was once an intrepid bobsledder and a skilled toboggan steersman. The present twelvemonth, 1929, is his "Jubilee year"-the 50th since he first celebrated Mass-and therefore devout Catholics hoped, last week, that by next Christmas the "Prisoner of the Vatican" will be released and restored to an athletic life...
...prospect, therefore, is a storehouse of all knowledge, a service station to all puzzled learners. Keen-minded citizens saw in so vast a plan no little nobility, some little obscurity...
With $700,000 on hand for the building of the long-anticipated athletic plant and the prospect of losing $250,000 of it if work is not begun by February, the necessity of immediate and courageous action on the part of the athletic authorities cannot be denied. The announcement that, funds or no funds for the fourth, construction on the first three floors or the new gymnasium will begin next week, marks a direct effort to sever the Gordian knot. New precedent or not, Mr. Bingham has proved that he is quite capable of dealing with the numerous annoying hindrances...