Word: wound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week both national committees reported to Congress the costs of their Presidential campaign. To win, the Democrats spent $1,638,177.58 and wound up with an indicated deficit of $769,055. To lose, the Republicans spent $2,670,652.69. Their indicated deficit was $239,540. Henry Ford's $25.000 was the largest single Republican contribution. Bernard Mannes Baruch gave the Democrats a total...
...would be unjustified to predict that the healing of the wound will not leave deep and ineffaceable scars. In the six years since the last game with Princeton, Harvard has traveled a long road, leading it ever farther from the ways of the black and gold. Despite the cheery words of athletic directors about "natural rivals" and "the Big Three," apathy and the indisputable fact of the House plan, with all that it implies, may imperil the hoped-for importance of the game...
Your comment in the Dec. 12 issue regarding my fellow townsman, Edward McCrossin, contained five counts: name, age, place of accident, nature of accident and quotation. Correct were name and place of accident. Wrong was the quoted age. The accident produced a jagged 36-stitch end-of-a-pipe wound in the right hand, not a broken collar bone. He did not say, when offered a drink, "Sir, I am a Prohibitionist, dead or alive" but, thinking clearly under stress as consulting engineers must, and considering that his heart had just been through a terrific strain he replied: "Thanks...
...Savannah. His guests: Supreme Court Justice Stone, Vermont's Senator Austin, Political Pundit Mark Sullivan and the ubiquitous Dr. Boone and Detective-Secretary Richey. Aboard the Sequoia, Department of Commerce inspection boat, and surrounded by a small flotilla carrying newshawks and bodyguards, the President's party wound through tidewater streams to emerge in Ossabaw Sound. Gus Ohman, a guide who had taken President Cleveland fishing in these Georgia waters, told President Hoover the fish were "biting like hungry tigers" but the President got not even a nibble the first day out. Christmas Eve the President & party feasted...
...pretty cousin, was his for the taking. In the ensuing Christian intrigues heathen Palamede stood firm and pure. But finally he could stand it no longer: in a great hurry he had himself made a Christian and picked a fight with Tristan. When he had given Tristan his death-wound Palamede began to realize he might have done the wrong thing. Sure enough. Isolde would have nothing to do with him. In bitter disillusion, Palamede went back to his Saracen home. When Brangain heard the news she cried: "Where is the Holy Land? Get me a horse...