Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tremont--"On Approval"--8:15 o'clock--Wit in the wild or marriage on approval...
While at Walden, Thoreau proved that individual men may overcome wild creature's instinctive fear of humanity. Birds and beasts showed no terror of him and it has been said by enthusiasts that the very fish of the stream would swim unafraid between his fingers...
...responsible for much of the baldness of the late generation which it typifies.'" . Rudyard Kipling, poet-story-teller: "My wife and I, aged 61, arrived last week in Rio de Janeiro. It became known that a Brazilian admirer, conscious of my flair for describing animals (both domestic and wild) had sent to my hotel an armadillo, a creature for whose origin I facetiously accounted in my Just So story about the porcupine and the tortoise. I kept the gift one day, then I returned it explaining: 'Hotel-life is too terrible a fate for an armadillo...
Hough, fast play, with many long shots and wild scrambles in front of the cages featured the overtime periods. Late in the second ten minutes Lane swept across the ice and cracked the puck with a vicious backhander that was deflected and rolled gently toward the Crimson net. Morrill had been drawn from his post, and with no one on guard. Coady reached out and with the tip of his stick turned the disc aside, saving what would have been the winning score. HARVARD DARTMOUTH Tudor, Gross l.w. r.w. Rogers, R. Fryberger Scott, Chase c. c. Gardner, Bayler Zarakov, Stanley...
Americana is the day's rage, but the hest of it needs no rewriting. Thus this vasty Audubon, who could prevision the cities that were to mar and befoul his beautiful Ohio River; the laying waste of the forests; the slaughter of the deer and wild pigeons. He felt, a century ago, that he must hurry to record the natural state of a world already vanishing. Monuments and societies have been set up in his name by people who hope that it is not yet too late for conservation. If such people are really interested in Audubon, this book...