Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other sponsors connected with the University are Ralph B. Perry, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, Albert S. Coolidge '15, lecturer in Chemistry, Robert Ulich, professor of Education, F. O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature, and John D. Wild, professor of Philosophy...
Istanbul is a symbol of Turkey in its dizzying mixture of progress and backwardness, its perpetual anxiety over war and its hope for a modern future. "This country," says one Marshall Planner, "is the Wild West in the Middle East...
...March, and 2) Hemingway had been close to death last February when he started writing it. As his publishers, Charles Scribner's Sons, told the story: Hemingway suffered blood poisoning in February from a fragment of shotgun wadding that lodged in his eye while he was shooting wild fowl in Italy. Doctors gave him a short time to live. Feeling that he could not finish the novel "of large proportions" that he had been working on for years, he started writing a new one, went right on with it after throwing off his illness. The 300-page book...
Globe-trotting Radio Commentator Lowell Thomas flew back home from Asia 15 Ibs. lighter than he went in. Though on crutches with the thigh fracture he suffered when thrown in Tibet by a half-wild pony, he could reminisce about his native diet of yak butter and yak meat cooked over fires of yak dung; his recorded broadcast from the forbidden Tibetan capital (carried to India by yak), and his gifts to Tibet's 15-year-old Dalai Lama (a gold & silver Siamese tiger skull, an alarm clock, a raincoat...
Coutre running wild, and 19-year-old Quarterback "Baltimore Bob" Williams directing the attack, there hadn't been anything like it since Murder, Inc. went out of business...