Word: tamed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...funicular up Pike's Peak is 35 years old and for 21 years there has been a searchlight on the summit. The $2,500,000 State Capitol was finished way back in 1895. Denver still smelts lead for bullets and other useful articles, but for at least two decades tame agriculture, led by stub-horned cattle and sugar made from cowbeets, has been twice as important to Denver as mining...
...Alphonse and Brother Guido quarrel in the garden; a dream reconciles them. They argue of a prehistoric monster; the Father Superior sends them to the circus, which they miss through absentmindedness, forgetting their monster with their destination. Not by grace but by slices of red beef does Brother Exuper tame the fearsome mastiff. The monument achieved by Brother Giles, after unseemly longing, is his huge foot print in a new cellar floor. By such simple means is the essence of a faith distilled, not for the saints but for the love...
Near Strongs, Mich., one Dr. John F. Deadman, veterinarian, talked softly and whistled to a full-grown timber wolf caught in a trap, calmed it, released it, in three days had it so tame he could stroke it, feed it, lift its lips back, baring the fangs...
Cicero becomes too tame a play ground, there are other places...
...matter he reviews. State and uninteresting is his task if prose or poetry have an earlier and a higher approval than his own by a prize award of competent judges, or even dangerous his task if he set out to contest the verdict of the judges. Combative originality or tame endorsement are his alternatives. But to the present reviewer it, is a positive pleasure to receive his September number of the "Harvard Advocate", replete with prize essay and poem, and graced by Dean Mayo's glance at "The Good Old Days", which is worthy of a prize--were such ever...