Word: wound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less than 4,900 local music clubs, with a total of 500,000 lady members ready to defend the diatonic scale as they would defend their young. Last week 5,000 of them, smartly dressed and a little less bosomy than D. A. R. ladies, wound up in Baltimore the 21st biennial convention of the National Federation of Music Clubs, moved on to New York City for two days at the World's Fair...
...Germans and Italians were busy power-politicking on a half-dozen other fronts. Starting at Aachen on the Belgian frontier, Führer Hitler demonstratively inspected the reputedly impregnable 400-mile steel and concrete Limes Line (also called West Wall) on the French border, pronounced it good. II Duce wound up a tour of the Italian-French border with a more threatening speech against France than he had previously made on his tour...
...brilliantly robed procession. The Pope climbed into a glistening, open-topped convertible sedan. Into nine other limousines clambered his retinue. By a devious four-mile route across Rome, past kneeling and cheering thousands, past the packed stands in the Via dell' Impero, the Pope's motorcade wound its slow...
Reason for the detour: In forced landings in Germany on the Vienna-London run, Jewish passengers with through tickets were taken up by the Gestapo and disappeared. Presumably they wound up in concentration camps...
...better bowlers than U. S. women. Quite conclusively was this demonstrated last week when the Women's International Bowling Congress, No. 1 tournament for women, wound up its 26-day session three days after the adjournment of the 58-day American Bowling Congress, No. 1 tournament...