Word: wildering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...banks of the deep. sheltered Delaware River ("America's Clyde"), on tidewater 90 miles from the sea. Mellon sold it in 1916 for $11,500,000 to American International Corp., and its troubles began. From 1925 on it was bought & sold first by brilliant, eccentric Laurence Russell Wilder, a promoter, who dropped its name and combined it with his electric equipment manufacturing firm of American Brown Boveri Electric Corp.; then by Motormaker Errett Lobban Cord, a promoter too. Present owner (since 1938): canny, balding Victor Emanuel's Aviation & Transportation Corp., which controls...
...Wilder headed the Big Green scorers by netting five goals with Melanson adding the sixth. Making a point each period the Crimson stickmen were unable to catch up to the four point margin set by Dartmouth in the first quarter. Jess Willard was high scorer of the Witherspoonmen with two tallies to his credit. Pete Zouck and Doug Anderson followed by batting in one apiece...
...Elizabeth Wilder prize of $100, for high rating in the mid-year examination in elementary German, was divided equally between Robert G. Axtell '43, of Evanston, Illinois, and Milton W. Hamolsky '43 of Lynn...
Virginia City (Warner Bros.). One day fortnight ago Virginia City, Nev. looked wilder and more Western than it has since the Grosch boys found the Comstock Lode. Warner Brothers were trying to outdo their last year's premiere of Dodge City in Dodge City by previewing Virginia City in Virginia City. They succeeded-with the help of nearby (22 miles) Reno...
Lined up for her first at-homes were Civil Libertarian Roger Baldwin, 56, Novelist-Playwright Thornton Wilder, 42 (to elucidate James Joyce's Finnegans Wake). Next one will feature Psychiatrist Abraham Arden Brill, 65, who first titillated her old salon with Freud's teachings. The young people, suggests Mabel, seem somehow warier nowadays. Her main interests today are science, psychology, religion. Radicalism, believes Mabel, is "old hat." Still at Taos is Husband Tony. Explained Mabel: "He is coming for a visit in February, but he doesn't like New York. . . . He is an outdoors...