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Word: wiles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...board of judges is composed of editors and writers of national repute. They are I. E. Bennett, editor of the Washington Post; C. G. Bowers, editor of the New York Evening World; Louis Ludlow, editor of the Ohio State Journal; O. P. Newman, Washington journalist; and F. W. Wile, author and political writer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRIZES OFFERED TO YOUNG JOURNALISTS | 1/31/1928 | See Source »

Morgan Derr Jr., 20, sophomore at the University of Rochester (N. Y.) classmate and friend of Student Rigby Wile, 16, who killed himself with a rifle on Jan. 2, last week felt ill, shot himself dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: More Suicides | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

...Manhattan, also on Jan. 2, Rigby Wile, 16, sophomore at the University of Rochester, wrote on a piece of paper that life was "meaningless . . . futile," and killed himself with a rifle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: National Universities | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

Died. Rigby Wile, 16, son of Ira Solomon Wile, M. D., famed psychiatrist-child specialist; in his father's home in Manhattan; by self-inflicted rifle shot, because he found life "futile." Said Dr. Wile: "I have no idea what led him to such a philosophy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 10, 1927 | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

...brummy" should connote wile, or "snig" an unseen Elysium is another question. Undoubtedly serapana" is more comprehensible. Still the idea persists in one's mind that these epithets were better submitted to the author's psycho-analyst than imposed on an already stuttering world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DICTIONEERING | 4/1/1926 | See Source »

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