Word: wilderness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...WILDER FOOTE...
...dark, dank jungles of Borneo will be wilder than ever during the next nine months, and usually placid primates will blink in the unaccustomed glare of publicity, for the first qualified expedition for studying them will leave within a month under the auspices of Harvard, Bart College, and Johns Hopkins University...
...Allen and Traf Hicks will start in the defense positions, while Leo Ecker, whom Coach Stubbs has converted into a back because of his bad leg, and Gene Emerson will stand ready to replace them. George Mahoney will probably first see action as goalie, with Nort Kidder and Dave Wilder as alternates...
...goalguard. With no lettermen returning, Coach Canterbury will have to develop one of the eight reporting to fill the shoes of Ash Emerson. George Mahoney and Nort Kidder were the net minders for the Jayvees last year and would seem to have the edge so far, but either Dave Wilder, Alex Irving, Jack Allen, Bill Kerr, or Dave Mittell all in the Sohphomore class, may prove the answer...
...Secret Journey is a wilder and more powerful book. Centring around a sinister moneylender, Mrs. Anna Ragner, who has involved Mrs. Fury in fantastic debts, it is written in an even more sombre key than The Furys, pictures events more nerve-racking, hysterical, violent. Mrs. Fury has borrowed in order to keep Peter at college, borrowed more to pay interest, pledged her furniture, the earnings of her family, the possessions of her son-in-law, the compensation paid for her son's injury. At the day of reckoning Peter returns after a year at sea, is astonished when...