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Word: wildes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trekking-menage sat down to dinner. Such succulent meats! What were they? Before the white men lay crackly tidbits of wild tapir (pig). The coppery Indian guides gorged on chunks of monkey carcasses, on the crisped torsos of giant lizards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dark America | 7/20/1925 | See Source »

...they had made a discovery. What this was, no gossips could accurately say. All agreed, however, that it was something of vast moment-epochal, recondite, revolutionary. Some averred that these men of science had devised a terrific explosive, others that they had found a way to harness the electron. Wild fellows even declared, in a parched whisper, that they had made a synthetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Industrious Secrecy | 7/20/1925 | See Source »

Crackly tidbits of wild tapir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Point With Pride: Jul. 20, 1925 | 7/20/1925 | See Source »

...slender A. H. Chapin Jr., for the Nassau Challenge Cup. Protégé Chapin took four games in the first set. Then Tilden, remembering that youth will be served, began to serve cannonballs, to cut, chop, drive, until many thought that Chapin would cripple himself in his wild nourishes at mocking tennis balls. Tilden won the next 15 games, the match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennis: Jul. 13, 1925 | 7/13/1925 | See Source »

Demoniac visions in wild jet eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Jun. 29, 1925 | 6/29/1925 | See Source »

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