Word: wilds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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History is at best violent, doubly so in such periods. Bombers over Shanghai and Guernica, refugees from Barcelona and Prague, tell stories whose raw horror blurs the minds of those who try to understand the causes of war. When philosophers, economists, historians try to penetrate the wild surface of events, to see the forces that have created them, their dry generalizations and statistics seem cold beside the living reality of the headlines. In different terms they state the causes of international conflict-as rivalry between the Haves and the Havenots, between the countries struggling to keep what they have...
Coach Stahl's hitherto sparkling infield turned the seventh into a farce. Gannett walked to open the inning, and Polzer followed with a single, Mogk dropped a bunt toward third, which Healey fielded, throwing wild past first, two men tallying, and Mogk going to second. Curtiss mounted the mound...
...close of the debate, which is open to the public, Payson S. Wild, assistant professor of Government and Albert Norris '25, coach of Debating, will announce the winner of the Coolidge Debating Prize...
...trumpet riffs around star number two betray a guy with a perpetual grin, Roy Eldridge. Roy, besides being one of the top swing men in the country, manages to play more fast trumpet than anybody around. To get an idea of why he got the nickname, "Wild Man," listen to "After You've Gone" (Vocalion...
...Ndola, Northern Rhodesia, a tea party on the Provincial Commissioner's lawn was interrupted by a wild baboon. The guests fled and he finished their pastry, picked some flowers, disappeared. Same night the pleased baboon returned, rang the doorbell hopefully, was shot...