Word: wound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like Tsar Nicholas II's sickly little Tsarevitch, the Prince of the Asturias (Crown Prince of Spain) was afflicted from birth with haemophilia, a dread and supposedly incurable disease. When a haemophile receives even the slightest cut his wound heals so slowly that from the merest scratch he may bleed to death. The Prince of the Asturias, 23, suddenly appeared in Paris not only in apparent good health but palpably, impressively robust...
...York's Social Register. A graduate and medalist of University of Virginia where he edited the student paper, he drove an ambulance in France in 1916, later joined the ist Division, A. E. F., emerged as a captain with a Croix de Guerre, six citations, and a wound from the Argonne. Later he was advertising manager of Mogul Checker Cab Co., published its house organ until the company crumbled under the strain of lowered fares. Five years ago he started Taxi Weekly against a local field of seven monthly trade papers. Only one competitor. Taxi News, survives...
Marshal Chiang Kaishek, foe of Yen and Feng and "President of China" in name if not in fact, was reported leading his Nanking armies on no less than three fronts at once, was rumored to have contracted gangrene from a wound in the arm, was positively declared in Shanghai by some of his closest political associates to be dead - not that anyone exactly believed...
Michael Faraday set to work in the field of electricity not as a dilettante but as a common laborer. He had to discover almost everything that he wanted to know. Of his greatest discovery, which ultimately resulted in the electric generator, he wrote: ". . . had an iron ring made. . . . Wound it with many coils of copper wire, one-half of them being separated by twine and calico. When all was ready . . . the battery was communicated with [the end of one coil]. . . . The helix strongly attracted the needle of [a galvanometre...
...Atlanta five years ago Glenn Karmer, Negro, changed his name to Glenn Brokenheart, after surgeons had mended a gunshot wound in his heart. The other day Glenn Brokenheart was again shot through the heart, irreparably...