Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Well," he admitted, "they were a little reluctant to leave. We imported ten Bengal tigers, and within a couple of hours there wasn't a bulldog left. Since we couldn't get near a house full of tigers, we had to find a herd of wild elephants and turn them loose on the tigers...
...were highhanded. They would not go into an election to find out whether the U.M.W. represented anybody at all. They counted not so much on their actual strength as the fear they could stir up. New Yorkers well remembered the 1934 cab strike, when 5,000 enraged hackies ran wild through midtown Manhattan, overturning and busting up cabs, fighting cops and stoning non-strikers...
...cavern on the shore of a long-vanished prehistoric lake, was the scene of the finding, which presents botanists with a treasure that has been the goal of scores of botanical expeditions. Two earlier groups from the University's Botanical Museum located varieties with primitive characteristics, but never found wild corn...
...Semi-Wild...
...possible," Professor Paul C. Mangolsdorf points out, "that the primitive corn found by the expedition, although probably not itself wild corn, is not far removed in its characteristics from the long-sought-for wild corn...