Word: wilds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Currituck Sound. N. C., is dotted around with cement-floored pits where men of leisure take their ease in wintry weeks to shoot wild fowl. Theodore Douglas Robinson, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, is no man of leisure. Last week, waiting on an island in Currituck for a Navy plane to fetch him and his dead ducks, Mr. Robinson grew impatient. Currituck was freezing. The Navy must be run. Up he got and helped his guide push, pole and slide their boat through Currituck ice to the mainland...
...birds at some unseen rumpus in the air dart from tree to tree, members of the New York Stock Exchange last week dashed from post to post in restless frenzy to buy, to sell. When one day was done and there had subsided the wild scream of men shouting diversely, they found that they had dealt with 3,228,300 shares...
...next day was one of wild dropping of stock around the trading posts. A group of 25 railroad stocks declined on the average 33¢ a share; a group of 25 industrial stocks declined on the average $2.19 a share. And when all was done the brokers counted 3,384,980 shares handled...
...Dealey, D1, D2. New Lect. Hall Mr. Hindmarsh, F1, F2, F3 New Lect. Hall Mr. Houser, H1, H2, Harvard 5 Mr. Hurd, A1, A2, A3 New Lect. Hall Mr. Padelford, P1 New Lect. Hall Mr. Sinclair, S1, S2, S3 Memorial Hall Mr. Vickers, V1, V2, V3 Memorial Hall Mr. Wild, W1, W2, W3 Harvard 6 Greek G H Sever 30 Greek 8 Sever 29 History 36 Sever 30 Italian 3 Sever 19 Mathematics A IV Harvard 2 Mathematics C III Sever 6 Mathematics 3 Sever 24 Mathematics 35 Sever 29 Music 1c Music Bldg. Physics 4a Sever 11 Psychology...
...That evening there was in the audience calling aloud with the rest, a young Hungarian of godlike features and stature, who was to transform the chaste nymph that I was into a wild and careless Bacchante...