Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many colleges require able-bodied students to engage in athletics. If a student hurts himself while competing in sports, can he sue his college for damages? In a Los Angeles hospital last week one Charles Groh, 21, thought that he could. In a damage suit filed against Coe College (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) he said that in October 1929 he was required "without physical examination and without the consent of his parents" to enter a cross-country run in a dual meet with Cornell College (Mt. Vernon, Iowa). Student Groh ran until exhausted, fell, hurt his spinal column. For four months...
...Detroit bushy-haired William Bushnell Stout, famed airplane designer, had his first accident in 25 years of motoring. His car struck and fatally hurt a woman...
...Geneva, Delegate Caballero de Bedoya offered to arbitrate, said: "Paraguay will never declare war!" Pacific observers were surprised and hurt because no one had bothered yet to ask the League Council to meet and intervene...
Depression hurt money-changing, so 35-year-old Banker Neidecker turned to goods and produce. Last year he bargained for Farm Board wheat to be delivered to his European cartel. Last month he announced the formation of International Commodities Trading Corp., Swiss-chartered, to barter among countries commercially hobbled by foreign exchange restrictions. Last week he concluded his first deal-an agreement to trade 1,000,000 bushels of U. S. wheat and a small amount of cotton for some $500,000 worth of Indo-China zinc and tin. The wheat will be traded on a basis...
...peaceful, men! Be calm!" shouted General Glassford. "Let's not throw any more bricks. They're mighty hard and hurt. You've probably killed one of my best officers...