Word: wound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steep steps of the Tribune the oldest pair of legs in the chamber carried Deputy Maurice Sibille to read the official eulogy. Would it pass, or not? The Chamber is notoriously fickle. It refused to cheer Clemenceau on his first appearance after a would-be assassin had wounded him at the time of the peace conference.† But "Tiger" Clémenceau was the antithesis of "Papa" Joffre. The Marshal was in France unquestionably the best beloved hero of the entire War. Last week would even a single deputy refuse to join in laying a harmless wreath of words upon...
...editors appeared puzzled by the goings on at Moscow, anxious but unable to believe them faked. Typically the New York Herald Tribune seemed to have faith that Professor Ramzin will actually be executed if convicted, but found inexplicable his conduct and that of the others in apparently seeking Death, wound up a long editorial with three bewildered questions, left all unanswered...
...codify every disease within their knowledge. When they have cataloged, renamed and numbered all, certain hospitals will practice with the new nomenclature. Chronic invalids could look forward to entertaining themselves with the numerological rigmarole of their numerous ailments; to swapping anecdotes or "stumping" each other on 64-309 (penetrating wound of the stomach) or 612-13 (fungus-ringworm-disease of the tongue...
...Frame '32 made the tieing goal. Harvard forced play during the two extra periods, and missed numerous shots until H. H. Broadbent '32 finally tallied. In the opening period, E. J. Des Roches '31 was injured in the head, and three stitches had to be taken to close the wound...
...scheme of Federal relief to this Commission. He reverted to the same abstract principles he set up last year: 1) State co-operation for public works; 2) development of national industries; 3) new Federal construction. He praised local efforts to supply jobs in Illinois, Detroit, New York (see below), wound up with this declaration: "As a nation we must prevent hunger and cold to those of our citizens who are in honest difficulties." In Boston the American Federation of Labor concluded its soth convention, at which Unemployment was topmost in the minds of the 418 delegates. A resolution was adopted...