Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the opening up of Africa by Stanley and Livingston, there came a sudden increase in foreign trade, particularly in wild beasts. Two enterprising young men, Messrs. Barnum and Balley engaged a stock company of particularly well-dispositioned wild animals, and took to the road. Later out of business courtesy or for advertising purposes. Barnum donated Jumbo to Tufts and the natural history course became overcrowded. By such means were lands terrestrial familiarized; going to Africa was thought no more of than going to get a milk-shake. Then within a few decades the South and North Poles were "exposed...
...shadow of its own goal-posts. Such at least was the general impression up to last Saturday. And perhaps it is too early to say definitely that Harvard found itself in the game against Tufts; there was nothing that roused the team or the stands to that wild, almost superhuman enthusiasm, of the kind, for example, displayed against Penn State in 1921. But there was a new power, there were occasional flashes of billiance particularly in the last period when Harvard kept bombarding the Tufts goal line, and there is new hope...
...such benign doctors only lived in the Middle Age or in Shaw's imagination. Therefore the one hope remaining to Phillipsburg is that tht Damocletian sword of suspended sentence will shortly fall and that the minions of the law with cotton-stuffed ears, will hail this Xantippe to some wild and lonely tower...
...that of Marshall Hapgood, who classes himself as an " Independent Progressive" and asserts in Who's Who that he is known as " the Rugged Reformer." His other claims to distinction include the invention of an out-of-door fireplace and activity in movements to conserve forests and wild beasts...
Considerable excitement was caused on Mt. Auburn street last night when a Ford Coupe, belonging to Mr. Edward Huse, an assistant caretaker of the University buildings ran wild without a driver from the Harvard Square Garage to Holyoke Place where its course was suddenly checked by an electric light pole. The accident was cause by a faulty stater-plug which released itself when the car was being pushed with the brakes off and started the car. It had reached a speed of 15 miles and was skimming along beside the curb before it crashed into the pole, smashing the fenders...