Word: wound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...others said he had become quaky on his pinnacle of fame. Some said he was bat-shy because one of his wild speedballs had almost killed Hank Leiber; others said Feller was just a flash in the pan. Even at the end of the season, when the Cleveland papoose wound up in a blaze of glory-fanning 18 Detroit Tigers in one game for a new major-league record and topping both leagues with a total of 241 strikeouts-the experts still hesitated to call Feller great...
...first All-Star game, ambled out to the mound as nonchalantly as if he were going to feed the chickens, took a quick look at the 63,000 faces staring at him from the packed stands in Yankee Stadium, took a quick look at the bases and then wound up-without even a nervous hitch at his trousers. The ball was a low, fast one and Pirate Arky Vaughan smacked it-right into a double play (Yankee Gordon to Red Sock Cronin to Tiger Greenberg...
...Halifax Harbor, after four last slow days in Quebec and the wooded Maritime Provinces, Their Majesties King George and Queen Elizabeth last week wound up their month-long American tour, went aboard the white-sided, yellow-funneled Empress of Britain and headed homeward...
...soured on Governor James, whom it helped to elect, has roasted the Legislature for killing Philadelphia's much-needed City Charter Bill, will back a Democratic mayoralty ticket next fall if Annenberg does not like the Republican nominee. Publisher Annenberg likes to think of himself as a crusader, wound up one editorial with a neat metaphorical blend: "Political skunks can wear themselves out directing their poison gas at me. I shall continue to do my duty...
That twins make ideal doubles players was demonstrated last week when William and Chester Murphy, identical twins, wound up their tennis careers at the University of Chicago. Playing in the Big Ten ennis championships at Chicago, the solemn-faced Murphys outplayed the star doubles teams of eight rival colleges, won the doubles title without losing a set. In three years of varsity tennis (including three Big Ten championships), they had never lost a doubles match, had dropped only two sets...