Word: wound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...color of his liver and it is whiter, if that could be, than the driven snow." The Hearst newspapers were flayed for deliberate "lies,'' for "the gravest abuse of the power of the Press in the history of this country." After 30 angry minutes of denunciation, Governor Smith wound up by urging the people of "this city, this State and this country ... to get rid of this pestilence that walks in the darkness...
...Campbell, a Manhattan Social Registrite, put a fashionable practice behind him to devote his full time to eugenics. Long before Adolf Hitler was anybody, Dr. Campbell, though too polite to wound racial sensibilities by calling names, was unobtrusively teaching that if "Americans," as that term is generally understood, do not speed up their birth rate, the result after a few more generations will be to leave control of their country in the hands of some more pushing race...
...House Ways & Means Committee spent six days listening to the "public" on Franklin Roosevelt's share-the-wealth tax proposals, heard little of interest because witnesses had nothing concrete to shoot at. Last week the Senate Finance Committee wound up a seven-day hearing on the same subject which, in addition to the stereotyped objections of tax experts, economists and special pleaders, produced the following noteworthy testimony...
...savage does not try to understand the mechanics of magical transmissions, but it seems obvious to him that objects once in contact retain a mystic affinity. Thus he believes that if his spear has wounded an enemy who escaped, he can make the wound fester by thrusting the spearpoint into a fire. He must take extreme care in disposing of his hair cuttings, his nail parings, his spittle and his excrement lest these things which remain a vital part of him fall into hostile hands. More abstruse forms of wizardry he claims to know nothing about, pointing out reasonably that...
...under the scrutiny and partial control of an international body. The International Astronomical Union, undisturbed by terrestrial wars and politics, held its first congress in 1922 at Rome. Since then it has met in England. The Netherlands, the U. S., once every three or four years. Last week it wound up its fifth congress in Paris, with 300 astronomers from 25 nations in attendance. Meeting. The Congress: ¶Planned an international map of the nearby sky, an enormous mosaic to consist of 11,000 photographs of which 8,000 are already available. ¶Recommended abandonment of 12-hour time notation...