Word: wound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year Thayer wound up on top in the soft ball standings, while Straus won the tennis meet. All matches on the courts were singles and this system will be repeated this fall in the tournament...
Policeman Thomas Henry Leary of Cambridge, Mass., a political clown well above average in his humor, last week wound up his campaign ("Be Wary of Leary") to avoid election as a delegate to the State Democratic Convention (TIME, Sept. 19), by ringing doorbells at dead of night, begging irate voters not to vote for him. He reported his campaign expenditures: 20? for rotten tomatoes for boys to throw at a "Vote for Leary" sign; 5? for a false mustache to frighten babies. He vowed, if elected (which local observers last week predicted he would be), to campaign for lifting...
...prize, became a musician by accident because he happened to inherit a flute from an uncle. The village barber of Plymouth, Ind., where his family then lived, taught him how to play it. Soon Flutist Van Vactor was well along on a flute-playing career that wound up in the ranks of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Meanwhile, he studied composition with Composer Wessel at North western University, later in Europe. His prize-winning symphony, which will be performed this winter in Manhattan, he describes as "absolute, dissonant, and, I hope, pleasant...
...Thus the Electric Power Board of Chattanooga offered to buy the Chattanooga property of Mr. Willkie's Tennessee Electric Power Co., threatened to build its own plant unless he agreed. Last week, in a long letter to the board, Mr. Willkie deftly left the matter hanging, wound up with a pious hope: that the New Deal's "free gift of 45% of the cost of Chattanooga's proposed power system will not be used to force us to take a greatly discounted price for property for which we are trustees...
...sell this chunk of his system to LCRA, saying "the difficulties which confront power companies, faced with competition from power projects which are heavily subsidized by gifts of Federal funds, compel us to work out some plan with you to prevent the destruction of our properties. . . ." Mr. Carpenter also wound up with a pious hope: that LCRA would stop urging Texas municipalities to build their own plants-for if Federal competition forced the big utility systems to take heavy losses from competition in some localities, it would be impossible for them to reduce rates elsewhere...