Word: wound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stain found on the road 410 ft. beyond Mrs. Taylor's body. "If it is proved," said Chief John Messmer of Louisville's criminological laboratory, "that this is human blood and the assumption that it came from Mrs. Taylor is established, then from the nature of her wound she could not have walked 410 ft. Somebody must have carried...
...summary, it is heartening to realize that the crawling parasites whose tentacles had wound around parties and platforms alike during the fevered days of the campaign, have been cast off and stamped under the heel of the voters of America. Their end was gain, their methods vicious lies or nebulous promises. But their days are numbered, and their sway ended. The Coughlins, Curleys, Lemkes, Smiths and others have been discarded to the rubbish heap of American opinion. Is it too much to dream that America will keep them there? Dare we hope that we will remain as free of these...
...hair well brushed, climbed Oklahoma's gaunt, rustic William H. ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray, who had promised to introduce him at Oklahoma City. Arrived at their destination, the onetime Democratic Governor and the Republican Nominee stepped off the train arm in arm. Alf Landon's throat was scarf-wound against the cold and for further protection he was bundled into a closed car for the drive to the hotel. Friends offered the closed car as explanation of the appalling scene which followed. As Nominee Landon passed through Oklahoma City's streets there rose from the crowd lined...
...French Anarchist Emile Cottin improved an opportunity to shoot and wound Premier Georges ("Tiger") Clemenceau, who died in 1929 with one of the bullets still in his lung. Anarchist Cottin, who was reprieved from losing his head on the guillotine by Victim Clemenceau, was announced in Barcelona to have been killed fighting the Whites last week on the Aragon front...
...shutter clicks at regular intervals in the plane's flight. Coincidentally with each click a little subsidiary camera records on the negative the time, temperature, altitude, bubble level reading and identification number. Then a vacuum, holding the film firmly flat during exposure, is released, and the roll is wound for the next exposure...