Word: wildering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they always disappear. Zoologists still wonder why. In northern Canada "an outburst of mouse-meat" is always accompanied by an increase of foxes, hawks and other mouse-loving predators. But mouse cycles in Britain, where predators have been largely killed off, are as regular and violent as in wilder lands...
Dartmouth has had a good season, and is well headed for its sixth straight New England League title. Mainstay of the veteran nucleus has been All-American Captain Joe Wilder; in the words of Dartmouth's coach, "a team in himself...
...primarily an attempt to strip the non-essentials from life. The Repertory Players have been trying to strip the non-essentials from the theatre, and the residue seems particularly appropriate to their present subject. Because they are used to a minimum of scenery, they manage very easily with Wilder's bare stage. Because they are accustomed to a small audience (the Play-house seats only 100), they can be more familiar with it, even to the point where the stage manager remarks, "That's the end of the first act. You can go outside and smoke now--those...
Milton Hamolsky of Lynn, Massachusetts. He has been Group I since he entered College and won the Elizabeth Wilder prize his Freshman year. He concentrates in Biology...
...doldrums by getting composers to write operas that are simple and inexpensive to produce, then getting colleges and music schools to produce them. Last year ruddy, twinkling Randall Thompson, 42, was commissioned to compose the first of them. He planned at first to collaborate with Thornton Wilder, but, when that fell through, he turned to his favorite Just So story, found that he could use Kipling's dialogue word for word...