Word: searchingly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Gillham made friends with Angus Gavin, a Hudson's Bay Co. trader, and whipped up in Gavin a hot excitement for the search. Gavin had himself transferred to the Perry River post. Some Canadian sportsmen and bird-lovers proselytized Gavin's boss, who authorized and financed an expedition. Gavin and a friend set out with a 16-ft. sled carrying supplies and an 18-ft. canoe. They sledged five miles up the river, then reached open water and took to the canoe. Fifteen miles farther up they came to an unnamed, uncharted lake, dotted with small islands...
...also our public relations officer. The demonstration last Saturday was not conducted by the cheerleaders nor was it authorized. I was with the football team between the halves and did not know about the incident until after the game, when our cheerleaders made it a point to search me out to assure me that what had happened was none of their business...
...gold digger's globe is 5° 30'N, 87°W: a Pacific isle named Cocos, rainy and "snagged, like an old pirate's teeth." There in the last 80 years have gone hundreds of adventurers to ruin their lives, lose their own fortunes in search for three pirate hoards (worth perhaps $60,000,000) which legend has buried about its shores. Biggest find to date: one rusty pistol. So littered with gold diggers' picks & shovels is Cocos Island that it looks "like an abandoned WPA project." A frequent visitor: Franklin Roosevelt. At Cocos...
Plans for new programs include broadcasts concerning the Selective Service Act, time devoted to vocational advice, and a talent search among the undergraduates. The Radio Workshop will contribute a weekly program...
...plain of spring wheat, a harbor of boats, or the smoke of chimneys of factories at work, the rolling hills of Ohio, the irrigated valleys of Colorado and California? ... If American schools would give children and youth some understanding of the American Dream, they must send them out to search the hearts of the American people and to live on its soil...