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Word: wilder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Each mongrel generation has grown wilder and more cunning. Hated for their destruction of game, they are also feared because an outbreak of rabies among them might ravage the whole district. As their next move, New Jersey sportsmen last week planned to set steel wolf traps through the Ramapos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Wild Dogs | 2/27/1933 | See Source »

...vigorous exertions. J. Hubert Stevens is an expert aviator, golfer, outboard motorboat racer. Curtis is good at golf and motorboating, prefers the latter. Raymond Stevens pitched ably on the 1914 Yale baseball team. Every autumn all four Stevens brothers spend two months hunting and trapping in the Adirondacks or wilder Canada. Other expert U. S. bobbers are Henry ("Hank") Homburger, Saranac, N. Y., civil engineer; Eddie Eagan, famed amateur boxer; Baron Walther von Mumm, onetime "champagne king" of Rheims; Jay O'Brien, Manhattan socialite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bobbing | 2/27/1933 | See Source »

MOTHER & FOUR-Isabel Wilder- Coward-McCann ($2). Long-winded family struggles in a university town, by Thornton Wilder's sister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books of the Week | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

...Society of American Bacteriologists held their annual meeting at Ann Arbor this year, and in the last day of the meeting, December 30, M. J. Rosenau, Charles Wilder Professor of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, was named vice-president. Professor W. M. Clark of Johns Hopkins, University was elected president of the society...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD PROFESSORS HEAD THREE SOCIETIES | 1/4/1933 | See Source »

...WILDER (Thornton) The Woman of Andros. Mint in dust Wrapper. New York...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MODERN BOOKS WHICH ARE DUE FOR A RISE | 12/7/1932 | See Source »

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