Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Agreeing with Holcombe on the speech in general but disagreeing with him as to what effect it may have on the neutrality legislation, Payson S. Wild, acting master of Winthrop House, called it "all right as far as it goes...
Both Holcombe and Wild felt that it might load to some sort of a conference as provided for under the Nine-Power treaty, which said that if the territorial integrity of China was to be threatened, then the signatory powers should convene...
...this year there is an imposing list of men who will expose their ideas, and then throw the floor open to debate and an exchange of varying viewpoints. Among this list of notables are Professors Munn, Sanders and Wild, and also Doctors Friedrich, Dunn and Nash. All of the lecturers will emphasize the extremely and practical useful role that the Christian Church can play in leading this chaotic world back to some degree of sanity, and they will lay particular stress on the present-day values of Christ's teachings...
Suddenly, as he sat in the cockpit, whole scenes of serious sailing lived before him, scenes of the sea that gives New England its character. He saw the shores of the Kennebee River, a wild, fair stream, where the rocks jut right down to the water's edge, and trees, native pines, overhang the channel. Indians, the old Abenakis, paddled this stream in their canoes long before white men came with sloops and schooners, and all the modern devices for safety on the waters. He saw the waterfront of Portland, a city set on an hill, and a commercial center...
...snakes, dangling frozen fish before crocodiles who had to be deluded into thinking they were catching them. By a triumph of nursing and nourishing they brought back alive 1,500 beasts of the field, forest and jungle, best of all 19 birds of paradise, two blue sheep, a Sumatran wild dog, four giraffes from the Sudan, and for Susie an eligible young husband named Wrestler who took delight in shaking hands...