Word: shore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Better than Hollywood. Yellowknife is a storybook mining town on the north shore of Great Slave Lake, 700 miles north of Edmonton, in the cold, desolate subArctic where temperatures fall sometimes to 60° below zero. Traces of gold were first discovered there in 1898. But fur-trapping was the area's No. 1 business until, one fall day in 1934, Prospectors C. J. Baker and H. M. Muir found high-grade ore on the shore of Yellowknife Bay. Then the gold rush...
Twenty-fifth reunion activities, always most prominent in Commencement Week and expected to be attended this yearly about 700 members of the Class of and their families, will dove-tail with the general program at several points, but in addition will include a Tuesday outing to the North Shore, and a men's display on the pre-war scale at the Parker Heuse Wednesday evening...
...faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled...
...mine name Roma-jean purely loves to sing. She kin sing a church song low and she kin line it out sweet. . . . Preacher, we purely need that two bits a Sunday you pay yore choir singers. If you can use her I reckon the good Lord shore will love...
...individuality of the University, the tutorial system, is threatened; new concepts of the old truism, intellectual balance within the student body, spread doubt that a worthy theory will be applied. The faculty may already be committed to the General Education Plan, but the undergraduate body stands at the shore, doubtful that the ice is strong...