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Word: wilds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed a Senate bill to establish a wild life refuge on the Bear River in Utah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The House Week Apr. 23, 1928 | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

Bold nines scored in the opening frame, but the 1 to 1 tie lasted until J. J. Carver '30 came home on a wild pitch in the fifth to send the seconds into the lead. A really in the sixth, in which Barbour singled, and Ellis and Molloy doubled, brought in two more runs and clinched the victory for the Crimson team. The Beavers scored once in the sixth and again in the seventh, but could not undo the damage done by the second's rally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SECONDS DOWN TECH BEAVERS | 4/20/1928 | See Source »

...there is little if any danger of a drastic reaction in the stock market as a result of wild trading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Pat | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

...Nights in a Barroom. Temperance tracts, wild wives tossing their heads, Andrew J. Volstead-none of these have withered U. S. alcoholism so effectively as this old-time melodrama. In this revival it is played with complete and proper gravity. The effect of this is often as funny as would be expected; yet, oft and again, some latter-day toper could be heard to gulp and sob, with regret that was not unmixed with remorse. When the little girl cries, "Father, dear father, come home with me now," it took a hardened sophisticate indeed to chuckle at her innocence. However...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 9, 1928 | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

...Mack and his dauntless associates in credible controversy with the sins and shames of rural Alberto. In the second act all of us had been intrigued, as they say in "Hedda Gabler," by the photographic reproduction of a frontier lupinar, if one may be permitted to call it so. Wild ladies of the night held outrageous wassail with officers of the law, and the wicked tinkle of best glasses accompanied the loose music of a brothel piano. Beneath the revelry a vigilant Justice brooded; for Sergeant Mack and his men, though drinking and disorderly were on duty bent. They were...

Author: By Percy Hammond, | Title: THE THEATERS | 4/5/1928 | See Source »

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