Word: wound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gruelling hour-and-a-half scrimmage in which the fast-stepping backs of the varsity shone, wound up the football practice at Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon, and the Jayvees were left on the tail end of a 24-0 score...
...motor car which whizzed past in the night, not knowing that it contained Senor Rafael Huezo, acting manager of the National Bank of Nicaragua. Lifted from his car. Senor Huezo was carried into the palace where President Sacasa, for years a practicing physician, personally dressed a bullet wound on the banker's head, murmured, "not serious, dear friend, not serious...
...Wound up with a flourish in Washington last week was the 16th International Geological Congress: an eight-day series of conferences which was only one phase of an elaborate, expensive scientific party attended by 500 geologists from 25 nations. Nominally their host was the U. S. Geological Survey. Actually their host was a fellow geologist-far richer than the general run of scientists and dead two years...
Died. Alexander Van Rensselaer, 82, a founder and longtime president of the Philadelphia Orchestra Association, board president of Philadelphia's Drexel Institute; of cancer; in Philadelphia. Last February when his stepson John R. Fell sensationally died of a knife wound in Solo, Java, Alexander Van Rensselaer protested it could not be suicide because Fell was "not a quitter" (TIME. March...
...freely bought & sold for homebuilding, wagon repairs and other purposes. In the U. S. can-makers' inventories are low and a large fruit & vegetable pack is expected. The Hawaiian pineapple pack is estimated at 8,000,000 cases against 5,000,000 last year. Messrs. Moore, Reid & Leeds wound up and ran their companies like small boys playing with toy trains. When they retired with enormous promoting profits, they carried the same methods into their glittering social life. "Tin Plate" Leeds paid his first wife $1,000,000 for a divorce. His widow managed to wed Prince Christopher...