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Word: wildes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first half of the second period both teams looked, to be brief, very weak. Ball-handling was sloppy, passes and shots wild, scoring at a minimum...

Author: By Ronald M. Foster jr., | Title: Northeastern Vanquishes Sextet, 8-7; Crimson Tames Tiger Quintet, 47-45 | 2/4/1948 | See Source »

Avak, dark-bearded faith healer who arrived noisily in California from Iran last May, arrived in Florida from California and quickly endeared himself to the Chamber of Commerce. California's wild parties and light-mindedness, announced Avak, were not conducive to faith healing -and neither was the climate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Feb. 2, 1948 | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...possession and exercise of these virtues, and in the state of mind which they produce, we find the true liberalism. Neither a certain current set of beliefs, nor a wild-eyed seizure upon something just because it is new, nor the investigation which starts with formed opinion, praiseworthy though that opinion may be can be honestly liberal. There is as much danger today from those whom one authority calls "dogmatic modernists" as from the traditional rock-ribbed reactionary. For liberalism in an approach, an attitude of mind, a way of life which meets an issue fortified with knowledge and intelligence...

Author: By Dan H. Fenn jr., (ASSISTANT DEAN OF HARVARD COLLEGE) | Title: Crime Personalized, Liberal Voice to Sentimental Fenn | 1/30/1948 | See Source »

Height tipped the initial victories into the Freshman's laps, but then came B.C. Yardling long shots went wild, and long, lumbering legs were not enough to smuggle the quintet under the tight opponent's defense. A sorry lack of rush in the freshman offense became obvious in this tearful Garden debut...

Author: By Rubrio J. Shortshot, | Title: Lining Them Up | 1/20/1948 | See Source »

...Mont presented Newscaster Walter Compton, who tended to overact. Compton was followed by a slow-burning Lucky Strike commercial (with the man who knows tobacco best looking fussed), and three short films (hunting dogs, wild fowl, a dance band...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: A Day with Television | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

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