Word: wilds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bees are in the tree, the coon is in his shelter, all's right with the "South Lot."* The President announced last week that he and Mrs. Coolidge are very fond of their wild swarm of bees. However, the President does not eat honey because it once made him sick when he was a little boy. As for the raccoon, which was sent to the President from Nitta Yuma, Miss. (TIME, Dec. 6), it has won its way into the Presidential affection and will not be sent to the zoo. An eternal coonship has been founded...
...field of scientific research the institute has directed or taken grant in 40 expeditions for astronomical research, anthropological surveys, the collection of wild game, the study of crustaceans, and for archeological, geological, paleontological, botanical investigations. The institute bandled also 480,776 packages in the exchange of scientific and government documents to 56 countries. The museum has acquired 254,032 new specimens of various sorts. The national gallety received as gifts a considerable number of works of art. The figures are heavy and dull in themselves but behind them is the combined activity of thousands of the keenest mines...
Tigers ate 974 humans, wolf packs tore and gorged on 265, leopards 191, crocodiles 98, bears 82, elephants 78, wild pigs 73, hyenas...
...Colonial Office pointed with pride to the decrease in human deaths due to wild animals from 3,605 in 1923, to 2,587 in 1924 and to only 1,974 last year. Curiously enough the only species of animal to take a greater toll of human life this year than last was the elephant. The number of tigers killed was 1,609, leopards 4,660, bears 2,485, wolves...
...breaking even. That was remarkable after the complete break-up of the business. This year profits, although not of the pre-Prohibition magnitude, are high. In ten years August A. Busch expects them to be Kolossal. He then will sail to his castle on the Rhine, to hunt the wild boar in peace of soul...