Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Cape Cod man, lucky enough to be at Daytona, Florida, in these days, writes that the wild geese have been seen flying north--a fact which East Coast natives assure him presages an early spring. Let us fervently pray that the East Coast people are true prophets, even if of the wishbone variety. With the temperature still vibrating rather wearily between five above and fifteen below, we need such hopefulness...
During the carnival, the Camera Club will throw open an exhibition of prize-winning photographs to the visitors, in the room of the Arts, Robinson Hall. Featuring the exhibit will be enlargements of wild animal and landscape pictures, taken by Dr. Leland Griggs, faculty advisor of the club...
...captured. The Freshmen, however, have both. They have had no University team to teach them how to tame the beast, yet they surely have the inherited instinct to do so. Coach Wallace, a veteran hunter and known of old in Princeton, has taught his pupils many ways to tame wild animals...
Does the cautious Vermont farmer prefer the safety of hoarding his wealth in a sugar jar to the danger involved from investing it in his own nation? Does the canny Maine woodsmen see in the national loan the wild perils of high finance, from which, fate being merciful, he prefers to keep his money? Where is all of New England's strength, promised so often to the last drop of her blood and the last ounce of her treasure? The first drop of her blood has not been asked, nor the hundredth part of her treasure...
...Medes and Persians--so our friend the scholar in Semitic 12 informs us--that when Artaxerxes, king of all the world from the Euphrates to the Tigris, went to battle he armed the front line of his phalanges with a buffer of pugnacious elephants. On each elephant was a wild-eyed son of Japhet with a sharp goad and a rebel yell. The goad tickled the elephant's hide, the rebel yell tickled his musical sensibilities. He became imbued with the spirit of conquest and charged like a young Juggernaut or a Woolworth tower on wheels against...