Word: wound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fairy tale which began: "Once upon a time there was a dwarf named Screwball Bowers. Now, Screwball wasn't like other dwarfs. He was dwarfed only from the neck up." Parker's parable went on to belittle Screwball Bowers' sports knowledge, questioned his sincerity and significantly wound up with a reference to a tale that had been going the sporting rounds for some time: "He was also honest in the case of Jack Smiley, who wrote a column for Screwball's paper ('the Daily Snooze') until he got too good and met the fate...
...Raymond Lee Ditmars, famed herpetologist of the New York Zoological Park ("Bronx Zoo"), has discovered that vampire bats from the American tropics do not, as commonly supposed, suck blood from the animals on which they feed. They lap it up, the tongue darting in & out of the wound four times a second. When Dr. Ditmars brought back four vampires from Trinidad, it seemed a good chance for scientists to check another theory-that the bat's saliva contains some substance which prevents blood from coagulating and so keeps the nutrient liquid flowing freely...
...fresh in the minds of many was the fabulous feat of Ralph Guldahl, who, debt-laden and jobless, started out on the grapefruit circuit last winter with borrowed clubs and a wheezing jalopy, won $3,500, went on to win the U. S. Open championship last summer and wound up the year with $8,600 in prize money, a lucrative winter job at the Miami-Biltmore and a potential 1938 income of some $25,000 from endorsing golf equipment, exhibition matches, magazine articles and other pickings & perquisites that fall to a U. S. champion...
...Alleghany Corp.. which receives a large part of C. & 0. dividends, their course might be different.'' Admitting that he would "not punish" the Erie if it were "independent," and questioning the right of C. & O. to control the Erie without helping it financially, he wound up: "It is a matter for the court-the juvenile court...
...where doctors cut through his chest wall, opened the pericardium or heart envelope so that the heart lay visibly beating before their eyes, and delicately extracted a three-inch piece of broken knife blade. They took care to let no blood rush out, quickly closed the heart wound with three stitches...