Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dodds disclosed that he had turned down an offer of $150,000 which was to go toward building the new club on the north side of Prospect Street--Princeton's "club row." Earlier the university president had referred to the additional club as a "positive new element" in the college's social setup...
Owen J. Goldrick had come all the way from County Sligo, Ireland to prospect for gold in the West. But when the boys in the back room heard him talk and listened to his flow of Latin, they dubbed him "Professor" there & then, took up a $250 collection, and told him that he was going to open and teach the town's first school...
...only thing everybody clearly agreed on was that Paul Pettit was "out of this world" as a pitching prospect. A southpaw, he stands 6 ft. 2 in. tall, weighs 205 Ibs., and throws a fast ball that "takes off." For four years Paul Pettit has completely befuddled schoolboy batters, once struck out 27 in a 12-inning game. In 1948, he performed the authentic Frank Merriwell stunt of pitching six no-hit, no-run games, . three of them in succession...
...American Medical Association, fearing federal control and eventual nationalization of the profession, has voiced a strong protest while the Federal Security Administration, alarmed at the already exorbitant tuition's in many medical schools and the prospect of a doctor shortage, has fostered the government plan...
Chinese students at the University do not seem to be visibly disturbed at the prospect of returning to a homeland under Communist rule, the Foreign Students Office reported yesterday...