Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also includes several note worthy critiques of trends in the English language. To top this off, like dessert after an interest-awakening banquet, seem to be a lively five weeks of selected poems of the English language, most of them quite short and to say the least, pithy. The prospect of that remarkable novel, referred to periodically by many college lecturers, 1984, also looms in the future...
Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd beamed with joy at the prospect of a victory he once thought he might never live to see. Democrat Byrd has long waged unremitting war against the Reconstruction Finance Corp., the huge Government lending agency set up by Herbert Hoover in 1932 as a depression emergency measure and expanded in function and influence during the New and Fair Deals. For years Byrd's fight was a solitary one. Last week, however, Harry Byrd was sublimely confident that the 83rd Congress would ultimately pass his newly introduced bill to wipe...
...sport stars in the delegation who attracted special attention was Socialite Tennist María Teran Weiss, attractive young widow of a Buenos Aires businessman. Reason: she is the latest of eight or ten Argentine beauties to be mentioned as a companion of the President, and likely prospect to succeed the late Evita Perón as First Lady of Argentina...
...thousand years of civilization seem intolerably long. But this is a minute interval to the biologist. Man is very young; the human deployment is in an explosive and very early phase. Man is the result of of two thousand million years of biological evolution: he has every prospect of an equal or even greater span of psychosocial evolution of the brain...
Over the Wall. Studying Colditz, Reid saw little prospect of a successful getaway. Yet get away he did, and so did a nervy sprinkling of others. For a while, Reid himself was "morally" committed to stay, for his special talents were soon recognized by his fellow officers, and he was made "Escape Officer" in charge of planning breaks for the whole British contingent. Much of The Colditz Story relates the attempts, both successful and tragically unsuccessful, of other escapers...