Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps the most noticeable change on the Princeton landscape is the building, pictured above, on the corner of Washington Road and Prospect Avenue (the clubs are in back and to the right...
...worth $38,525, boosted Native Dancer's earnings to $230,495, and made him the money-winningest two-year-old of all time (the previous record: $219,000, won back in 1931 by the unbeaten filly Top Flight). Even more satisfying to Owner Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt was the prospect ahead; for Native Dancer is the obvious early choice for next year's Kentucky Derby (a race Vanderbilt has never won) and the Triple Crown...
...later: "This is a solemn day." And it was, for this week 300,000 of the nation's 375,000 soft coal miners walked out in protest against the WSB's decision. Having lost two months' steel production, the nation was now faced with the prospect of another crippling shutdown of defense industry (though the prospect was not immediate; the amount of coal above ground is larger than usual). The coal strike, even more clearly than the steel strike, was the result of unsuccessful Government interference in free collective bargaining...
Winston Churchill last week told the world that in his opinion "the prospect of war is remote and receding. Atomic warfare is too horrible for either side to contemplate, reasoned Churchill. "The quarrel might continue for an indefinite period, but after the first month it would be a broken-back war in which no great armies could be moved over long distances. Governments, dependent upon long-distance communications by land, might well find that they had quite soon lost their power to dominate events...
Ohio State, already bowled over by Purdue, faced the prospect of taking its licking of the year from powerful Wisconsin, ranked No. 1 in the Associated Press poll of U.S. sportwriters. Wisconsin had every reason to pour it on; the Badgers had not beaten Ohio State at Columbus since 1918. But once again the beef cowed the butcher. Holding Wisconsin to a thin 7-to-6 lead at the half, Ohio State rallied brilliantly, put on long, sustained drives for two more touchdowns, added a field goal, blasted the Badgers out of the Big Ten lead...