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Word: wildes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cried, was "not an instrument of defense but a military alliance designed for aggression." Furthermore, it was a deal backed by U.S. big business, the Roman Catholic hierarchy and British imperialists, who were "whipping up a holy war" against communism. The pact, Wallace said, would turn Russia "into a wild and desperate cornered beast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Next Witness | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...game uses a double deck with four jokers-108 cards. The jokers and all deuces are wild. Red treys are bonus cards, worth 100 extra points. Black treys, by contrast, are purely defensive cards, and can be melded only when the player goes out at the end of a game. In the scoring, a canasta (literally, basket) is a seven-card meld, and if a player makes it the hard way (using no wild cards), the bonus is 500 points. Scoring can run into the thousands in a single hand; 5,000 points is game. In most forms of rummy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: 5,000 Points Is Game | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...fact that cancer cells make a difference measurable in electricity may be a clue to the nature of cancer. A possible explanation lies not in the cancer cells themselves, but in the relation between cancer and normal cells. Cancer cells are "antisocial" or "immoral" and run wild in the body; the test may measure the resulting disturbance. It is possible, Drs. Burr and Langman speculated in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, that cancer is a defect "in the design of the organism." If later experiments prove this to be true, they reasoned, there would be no one cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Anti-Social Cells | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

This is not to say that Estin ran wild--he didn't really run at all, and he scored only one goal. But he did prove that even when hobbling around on a badly hurt ankle he is the heart of the team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrosse Varsity Beats Tufts Easily, 12-5 | 5/12/1949 | See Source »

...Dean Wild Came to Harvard in the fall of 1926 as a student, received his M.A. in 1927 and his Ph.D...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wild's Northwestern Job Confirmed; MacLeish to Occupy Boylston Chair | 5/10/1949 | See Source »

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