Word: wound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adult should use specific words. For example, twice as many children wound a swimming toy correctly when a teacher said "Wind it backwards" as when she said "Wind it this...
...nine-ounce steel ball was dropped on a pane of the same glass from a height of 28 feet. The glass bulged and cracked but did not break. A young woman stood behind another pane while Chief Bender, famed oldtime pitcher, wound up and let fly a baseball at it. The glass stopped the ball...
Last week Vicar Elliott wound up his League's pre-Easter push, which has enrolled 6.000 people a week, by speaking to rallies in Folkestone and Reading. In recent months he has packed halls, turned crowds away throughout England. His physical labors for the League are no fun. Mr. Elliott loathes trains, grimly smokes his pipe and speaks to no one while traveling. Insomniac even in his own bed, he sleeps little-save with sleeping powders-in hotels...
When Racketbuster Tom Dewey last week wound up his biggest case, the most interesting item for New Yorkers was not the four-to-eight-year sentence imposed on Tammany Boss Jimmy Hines for selling protection at $30,000 a year to the city's "numbers" racket.† More significant was a probation report published the same day. In detailing the life & works of Convict Jimmy Hines, 62, with data gathered from Hines's family, friends, neighbors, District Attorney's office and Hines himself, the report gave ordinary citizens who often damn but seldom understand political bosses...
...four-wall court in which its few devotees play the fastest racquet game of all. The bats have small circular heads with long shafts, cost about $8, break at an alarming rate. The balls, worth about 60?, are made of tightly wrapped strips of cloth wound with twine and covered like a baseball, are slightly smaller than a golf ball, have put players' eyes out. With recovering, costing about 10?, balls can be made to last for 100 years. Played like four-wall handball, kin to pelota, pallone and other Basque games, it was probably originated by bored debtors...