Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Double plays: Liverance to Keyes to Tully. Struck out: by Houghton 3, by Keyes 1, by Dobbyn 4. Walks: off Houghton 5, off Keyes 1, off Foley 6, off Dobbyn 2. Wild pitches: by Houghton 1. Left on bases: Harvard 6, Boston Latin...
Small, deep-voiced Dr. Herbert Fox, comparative pathologist of the University of Pennsylvania, studied the incidence of arthritis in animals at the Philadelphia Zoo, found this joint disease in the front legs of hyenas and leopards, the hind legs of antelope, deer and wild pigs, the necks and hands of gorillas. He concluded that in mammals (including man) the parts put to most strenuous use are the most susceptible to arthritis...
...soft ball battles, the Deacons went wild, batting out 39 runs to Winthrop's six; Dunster could only run up a total of 25 to match Dudley...
...Chicago's International Amphitheatre last week, with 512 performers, 400 horses, 160,000 square feet of canvas, Tim McCoy's Real Wild West & Rough Riders of the World made its bow. In Chicago the show seemed good but raw, mingled surefire thrills with extravaganza that fell flat. Flattest of all fell McCoy's cherished pageantry stuff. Amazed, McCoy could only insist that "it has to be there. It's like candles and Christmas." What went over big, besides the imposing grand entry, was straight action: cowboys with lariats climaxed by McCoy himself roping eight horses with...
...play-poem, The Fall of the City, broadcast in 1937. A radio-studio innovation, it presented Fascism as a spook-in-armor, stalking in on and taking control of a nation paralyzed by inertia, fear and propaganda. Few listeners-in agreed on the poetic merits of what the rather wild air waves had been saying, but most did agree that if Fascism should come to the U. S. it would come as a man, not a spook, agreed also that in The Fall of the City Radio-Play-Poet MacLeish had made some good, if eerie, topical points...