Word: wound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thanks to able President Biggers for setting TIME'S record straight. Last month President Biggers wound up his job as Administrator of the Government's Unemployment Census, was happy to report to President Roosevelt that he had spent only $1,986,595.46 of the $5,000,000 authorized...
...Hurdler Fred Kelly. After the War it was Charlie Paddock, fastest sprinter of his time; and more recently it was Frank Wykoff. Since 1928 he has been renowned for his record-breaking pole vaulters, most sensational of whom were the "Trojan Twins," Bill Sefton and Earle Meadows, who wound up their college careers last year by breaking the world record with identical vaults three times, once at the unheard of height...
...action came, he reported, because of the latest athletic bulletin of the Olympic games, which, he said, carried a message from the Japanese athletic council condeming China as an aggressor nation and expressing the hope that the war would be wound up by the time that the Olympic games took place...
...winner; in 4 hr., 15 min., 58.40 sec., for an average of 117.200 m.p.h., which broke the record of 113.580 set by Shaw last year; before a crowd of 150,000; at Indianapolis. Of the 33 drivers who started, only 13 finished. One, Emil Andres of Chicago, wound up in a hospital after his car turned over three times and one of its wheels flew into the infield, killing a spectator perched atop a truck...
...business suit and Oriole cap, stepped gingerly to the plate, wrapped his gnarled fingers round a bat for the first time in 40 years. From 2,000 throats or more there rose a lusty yell as Oriole Coach Rogers Hornsby, recent manager of the St. Louis Browns, wound up for the special strikeout...