Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Laplanders keep reindeer for milk: roving Tartars mares; Bedouins camels; pastoral tribes sheep; mountain tribes goats; tropical ones buffaloes. Asses' milk is highly esteemed far and wide. Each type of milk has its peculiar flavor, sometimes nauseating to the uninitiated. In the wild state, these animals, and the cow also, cease their milk flow after weaning their young. Farmers know that a calf weaned late is unusually frisky...
Last week the grey silence of northern Alaska was ruptured by an occasional rifle crack. Furtive eyes of the wild hiding in snow-hung tamarack tangles would see a fur-muffled Eskimo dragging his quarry to a camp fire, where seven other humans busied themselves preparing sledges and sleeping bags for another night in the wilderness, and 58 tawny-and-grey husky dogs nuzzled down to rest or sat on their haunches growling for supper...
...this article it is stated that Major Moore favored the new five-yard penalty because "it will put an end to the wild passes which feature the end of a close game." Major Moore stated yesterday that this was exactly the opposite of his view and that of the Rules Committee...
Films will be shown of trout fishing in Glacier Park, climbing Mount Ranier, and of the wild life of Yellowstone Park. Dean Lobdell of M. I. T. has said that they are the most beautiful pictures of wild country that he has ever seen. In addition there will be a Barold Lloyd comedy entitled "Never Weaken", and the whole performance will be supplemented by music...
...issued to a CRIMSON reporter, by F. W. Moore '93, Harvard's representative on the Committee. "We decided that we needed something to check the overuse of the pass. Football was resolving itself into a game of basketball. The new rule was merely adopted to curb the so-called 'wild' passes which usually feature the end of a close game. It will not effect the use of legitimate forward passing...