Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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That, too, was the time of the gloomy revelation in the press that the United States was as unprepared for modern war as all the other democracies had been. The prospect, therefore, before the United States, if the British Fleet was sunk or surrendered or sailed away to the outer parts of the British Empire, was not rosy. With Hitler and Mussolini's navies and the remains of the French Fleet based on the eastern rim of the Atlantic and on strategic islands well out in the Atlantic, would not the whole American Fleet have to come back...
...children themselves none of this was as important as the prospect of a blacked-out Christmas. They planned to trim the bare steel girders of the big underground shelters and to set up Christmas trees, to have carols and mince pie. But the youngest moppets were afraid that London's anti-aircraft crews might shoot at Santa Claus...
Birthday. Britain's George VI, his 45th, observed "somewhere in the country" with his Queen and two daughters, but-because of rationing-without his usual plum cake at tea. Official celebration waits till June, when colors can be trooped with better prospect of sunshine. Last week the fourth anniversary of his accession to Edward YIU's throne occurred...
...Some twenty years ago, at the invitation of Harvard, the theological seminaries of the Unites States and Canada met here to consider the postwar problems of the churches and the prospect for the future. That meeting resulted in the organization of the Conference of theological Seminaries and Colleges in the United States and Canada. The intervening years have been spent by that organization mainly in a study of the forces and the nature of the Protestant ministry and its professional training. We now have, in place of guess-work, reliable information as to these matters. Meanwhile the Conference has been...
Eighteen important volumes of Americans, filling gaps in the Harvard collections, were presented by Arthur A. Houghton Jr. '29, of Corning, N. Y. Included in the gift were a first editionof Anne Bradstreet's "The Tenth Muse," 1650; a first edition of William Wood's "New Englands Prospect," 1634, the first detailed account of Massachusetts; and the only known copy of one of the earliest books printed by William Bradford in New York, "Some Seasonable Considerations for the good People of Connections...