Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entire Government commercial flying has bounded throughout Canada. Four years ago there were only 14 private firms in the country's entire 3,684,723 square miles. Now there are 89 companies. Last year they carried 100,000 passengers; with only 24 crashes-29 dead, 20 hurt...
...what I want to ask General Smuts is what he meant when he associated the Negro with the jackass-I mean the ass -what he meant when he called us 'docile animals.' . . . I'm sure no insult was meant but when he used those words, it hurt. It cut like a two-edged sword through the heart of every Negro and we Negroes would leave this hall with a bad taste in our mouth if no explanation was forthcoming...
...Ivar Kreuger [famed tycoon-director of the Swedish Match Trust, lender of millions to many a hard-up government]." M. Tardieu finished with a flat declaration that France would not give Germany the benefits of the Young Plan unless the German Government promises not to issue bonds liable to hurt the sale of Reparations Bonds...
...Coast Guard's job cannot be handled with soft words and amiable gestures. . . . The Coast Guard is used to carrying out its duty with vigor and determination. . . It means business. ... If a smuggler elects to defy the command to stop, he runs a serious risk of getting hurt...
From wall to wall the little trapped ball, hard as a modern golf ball, smaller than a modern baseball-a Turk's head of plaited rubber strips sewn in a membrane of goat-skin-flew so hard that it hurt bare hands. The players took to wearing gloves, then invented and strapped to their throwing wrists a long shallow wicker basket (called cesta). hooked like a giant's fingernail. The length of the throwing arc added speed to the little ball, heightened the game's excitement, sent it back across the ocean with other Spanish improvements...