Word: wilds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Addressing a National Conference on the Utilization of Forest Products (called by the late Secretary of Agriculture Wallace), President Coolidge warned: "The era of free, wild timber is reaching its end, as the era of free, wild food ended so long ago. We can no longer depend on moving from one primeval forest to another, for already the sound of the axes has penetrated the last of them...
...martyrs of Fascismo. Demarsico turned to Soleri, shouted: "They died smilingly, our 3,000 martyrs, to construct something permanent. Make no illusions for yourselves; they have indeed created something permanent; and their sacrifice will not have been made in vain." Fascist lungs sent up a shout of wild applause that caused Fascist mouths to open their widest...
...account of articles in magazines. Dr. Straton averred that religion had redeemed him, but that such articles continue. He particularized The World's Work, The Century, the staid Atlantic Monthly as prints that are putting "into the literary and intellectual pot enough poison from their wild gourds to utterly destroy the people...
...judge by last year, the Military Science department will be on hand to throw a few hand grenades into the pacifist ranks. "Blow bugle, blow: set the wild echoes flying!" The pacifists have declared war without quarter upon the forces...
Bull rights, once popular in the U. S., are moribund. The one available bull, swart Firpo, shares the destiny of the old grey mare. Last week, in Newark, one Charles Weinert, seasoned ring roue, was given his fling at the once-wild Argentinian, and in twelve rounds caused his victim even more discomfort than did Heavyweight Champion Dempsey one summer night last year, than did big black Harry Wills two months ago. Dempsey was mercifully swift with the coup de gráce. Weinert, less forceful but imaginatively brutal, subjected the glowering, laborious, fat-ridden Firpo to nearly an hour...