Word: wilds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Significant of conditions in the minor feudal states of Indian princes was a statement, last week, by Director-Professor Heck of the Berlin Zoo: "To explain the enormous number of wild beasts killed by native Indian princes during a single hunt is most simple. On the night before a great hunt the haunts of the beasts of prey, especially lions, are strewn with meats containing morphine. When, next day, the drugged beasts are hunted they prove easy game...
...Puddingers serve it properly in Act If when C. E. Henderson '28, who has been continually, stopping the show with his new song, gags, antics and weird instruments, gets together the Five Nations to do a little pre-Pilgrim harmonizing. No wonder the Indians in this country were wild...
Over Greenwood, Miss., a long, streaming V of wild geese beat their way north from the Gulf of Mexico into a thunder storm. Flares and crashes tore up the smooth formation. Geese swooped for coverage. Twenty-six dropped, plumb, dead, onto the farm of Robert Townes...
...survive in the chill climate and on a cage diet. Last week curators of the American Museum of Natural History announced that the dead dragons were nearly ready for exhibition in the new Hall of Dinosaurs. Their eight-foot corpses were mounted, one in the act of strangling a wild boar, the other "snarling defiance at civilization." Beneath their showcase will be a placard explaining again that they were varanus komodensis, giant monitor lizards, descendants of Mesozoic dinosaurs, nocturnal, rapaciously carnivorous, fleet of foot, deaf, strong enough to slay a horse...
When culture has sowed her wild oats...