Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Europe the National Park idea is an innovation. The royal game preserves have kept from extinction several species of wild game like the bouquetin corresponding to our mountain goat; but the formation of a National Park has been hailed all over Italy with enthusiasm...
...constantly spreading. The Director of the National Park Service has proposed the creation of several new reservations and constructive work in the parks already existing is going on steadily. The most recent step forward is the passage of a law in Vermont putting a protecting arm around certain wild flowers as the rest of the country is already protecting game. Vermont thus constitutes itself a sort of state wide sanctuary for the wild flowers which are fast disappearing elsewhere under the uprooting hand of the automobile picnicker, and, in the case of the May flower, of the professional marketer...
This freak bug is not a dominant type. It fades out rapidly and leaves a prolific generation of the authentic black and white variety. The freak may be recognised by a decided tendency to run wild and to cover in area what it lacks in depth-in short, by a total absence of any specific gravity. For this reason it is a welcome visitor to the overburdened college mind...
...Franck, Symphonic Poem, "Le Chasseur Maudit" ("The Wild Huntsman...
...nothing light and airy is in the minds of the performers gravely gravitating through the rhythmic movements of the exercise. Right hands become wrong hands. Feet become hay-feet, straw-feet, then lead feet. In fact the limbs of budding lawyers and scientists alike feel the call of the wild...