Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Teamed together in the doubles, Wood & Shields lost their match to Henri Cochet and Jacques Brugnon the day after the singles semifinals. Shields, because he found his leg still hurt badly, then de faulted the singles to Wood. Wood thus became the youngest of all Wimbledon champions, the only man in Wimbledon's 54 years who has won without playing in the finals...
...westward out of Fargo early one morning. A mile west from town was the Big Slough across which ran an earthen fill. As the train reached this causeway a tornado struck it and turned every Pullman of the train on its side. But in this case no one was hurt...
When President Hoover picked the Rapidan for his camp, he had no idea that his presence there would hurt, rather than help Virginia gather up private land to contribute as the Shenandoah National Park. The President's camp boomed mountainside values. The Madison Timber Corp., putting a $1,000,000 price on land sought by the State, argued that their property was worth it, not entirely as timber perhaps, but as a potential summer resort. The President, they claimed, had given the region priceless advertising and had put in an 8 mi. road worth $200,000. and power and telephone...
...ship, thought they had a good chance of coming through. But they did not. Somewhere over Eastern Turkestan oil began to spray back from the engine; Jimmy had to make a forced landing in a rocky valley. The plane was wrecked; Jimmy's foot was hurt; the others were all right...
...village was one James Oilier, a beneficent gardening kind of man held strictly to business by an acidulous sister Alice. James was to Alice as Jennifer had been to Father. When James and Jennifer showed signs of drifting together, Alice whisked him off to Switzerland. Jennifer was a little hurt but forgot it when Father's wife left him and left Father on her hands again. By a cataclysmic effort of will, James shook Alice long enough to rush manfully home to Jennifer, declare himself unvicarishly. Father, a selfish, tactless man on the whole, died at just the right...