Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...total of 430 pounds, have been running mates in early practice with a tentative first line. Horween, son of the former coach, is the slower and less experienced of the two. Letterman Hank Toepke played more or less regularly last season, and Bernie O'Brien is a fair sophomore prospect...
...year-old pianist and World War I widow. Unable to make a living as a pianist, she had tried as best she could to eke out her meager 7,000 franc ($20) monthly pension. Last week a Paris court sentenced her to eight months in prison. The prospect of jail did not alarm the pink raven. Said she: "At last...
Deeps Unvisited. Sometimes the infinite prospect of God's "desertion" was too much for even Cowper's "passive valor." "I now see a long winter before me," he wrote bleakly in September 1783, "and am to get through it as I can. I know the ground before I tread upon it; it is hollow, it is agitated, it suffers shocks in every direction; it is like the soil of Calabria, all whirlpool and undulation; but I must reel through it-at least if I be not swallowed...
...tremendous legal battle is in prospect. But if the opposition tries to prove that Hearst had been incompetent when he made Miss Davies boss, it will have to hurdle the fact that to the very end, all Hearstlings had made a great to-do about the clarity of old W.R.'s mind...
Hard Choice. Miss Davies did not like the prospect of fighting her way through court. Said she: "I would do anything in the world to avoid hurting the boys [Hearst's sons]. After all, they're half of W.R." But she also knew what she thought she had to do: "I'm not the fighting type, but I don't believe in disregarding W.R.'s wishes. He had a reason for having the agreement drawn up. He thought I was the one who understood best what his policies and principles were and that I could...