Word: hurt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty laps in the pool. He was doing fifty this summer but it was a smaller pool. Eyes hurt in the sun, too much chlorine in the water. No cocktail before dinner, swore off two weeks ago and only had one since. Dinner in the Master' lodgings, the Master tall gray quiet man, professor in an antique tongue. Master's wife good company. Some talk about new parietal rules, plans for House dances. Back to the Attic a little after nine and an hour reading Kleist's "Prinz Friederich von Homburg" with text in one hand and Langenscheidts "Deutsch-Englisch...
...Gehrig string has come close to breaking. He has appeared on innumerable occasions while suffering from colds, headaches, broken fingers and minor ailments, always without noticeable detriment to his play. Practically immune to the normal wear and tear of big-league baseball, Gehrig has only once been dangerously hurt. This was when a pitched ball knocked him unconscious in 1934. But he was in the lineup the next day, hit three triples in five innings. Closest call of all came when Gehrig was laid up with acute lumbago. To save his record, Manager Joe McCarthy had him motored...
...truck parked in front of the newspaper El Pais blew up with an explosion heard for miles, wrecked El Pais's two-story building, shattered the Church of Nuestra Señora de Monserrate across the street, broke glass storefronts for a distance of six blocks, killed four, hurt 27, and was credited with having done $200,000 damage. Police at once threw a cordon around the area, discovered the touring car full of dynamite and disconnected its time-clock before it could explode. "Today's dynamiting is truly lamentable," commented dictatorial Cuban Army Chief Colonel Fulgencio Batista...
...Kansas City, North Dakota's Governor Walter Welford was painfully hurt when his taxicab collided with another machine. Hospitalized, Governor Welford remarked: "Well; lots of things have happened since I have been Governor. I suppose getting bumped . . . is just another one of those things...
...throughout the West, consequently aroused excitement out of all proportion to their importance as robberies. Afterwards Bass apparently could count on enough support among the farmers to feel sure of hiding places when pursuit grew hot, although his attacks on the railroads had not helped the farmers and scarcely hurt the carriers...