Word: wound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the floor; an opening in the righthand corner of the end wall on the receiving side called the "grille"; an opening in the end wall on the service side, under the penthouse, called the "dedans." Players face each other on opposite sides of the net. Balls of tightly wound cloth; small pear-headed racquets...
...balance of the Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, when wound up by Donor Daniel Guggenheim last year (TIME, Nov. 11), amounted to $300,000. This bulky leftover was to go to some enterprising southern educational institution. Last week Trustees of the Fund announced Georgia School of Technology at Atlanta to be the final beneficiary. Reasons: Georgia Tech is enterprising. It has an ideal aviation location and environment, high engineering requirements. Its student body is cosmopolitan...
...high-voltage cables, the insulation consists of paper tapes wound around the copper conductor, and impregnated with some heavy insulating oil: the whole is enclosed in a lead sheath. During the process of manufacture, air is inevitably occluded within the insulation and later while the cable is in operation gases are evolved from the oil. With high operating voltages these gases become ionized, and, striking the paper tapes, in time destroy them, literally by bombardment. In addition the heat generated chars the insulation and disintegrates the oils so that the combined effects have made high voltage cables the most unreliable...
...which, from stem to stern, are in College and eligible. This crew includes the following men, two or three of whom should be ripe for service in the first boat this spring: S.W. Swaim '31, who last year stroked the University crew against Tech and Cornell but who finally wound up as bow against the Eli juniors, H.W. Sturges '30, C.E. Mason '30, J.W. Hallowell '31, M.R. Brownell '30, A.N. Webster '31, R.I. McKesson '31, and P.H. Watts...
...point of pride to stand the painful treatments a little longer than any of his comrades; he was also invincible at chess. One was a boy from Westphalia; the fourth was an English prisoner. Once they were joined by a fifth, Fürlein, who had no wound but had lost his voice and could hardly breathe. Suspicious of him at first, the Whistlers soon made him one of them, and were overjoyed when the time came for his operation and the insertion of the silver tube. But the doctor did not operate, instead gave Fürlein an electric...