Word: wound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whom became musicians. "It was a question," says Ralph, "of who would get what room to practice in; being the youngest, I got the bathroom." While the other children were studying violin, cello and trumpet, Harold and Ralph took up the oboe, criticized each other's playing, wound up as scholarship students in Philadelphia's Curtis Institute. Both Harold and Ralph got their jobs with their present orchestras when they were...
...week to 1) friendlier relations and cooperation with Communist countries and 2) U.S. recognition of Communist China and its admission to the United Nations. In Cleveland, 500 lay and clerical delegates to the World Order Study Conference sponsored by the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. wound up their four-day meeting with a unanimously approved statement to these effects. Excerpts...
...World Federalists, are staging parties every night because there is no easier way for a charity to make money. For $5,700 (and only 20% down), the Maternity Center Association bought up Marriage-Go-Round one night last week. It sold the tickets to members for $10 to $30, wound up with a profit of $16,000. Its major out-of-pocket cost: $210 for postage stamps. Why choose a broad sex comedy such as Marriage-Go-Round for the Maternity Center? Explains Director Hazel Corbin: "Because it turns out all right in the end. We always try to pick...
...stays with me." Stay he did-long enough to hit 511 home runs, score 1,859 runs, bat in another 1,860, draw 1,708 bases on balls (all National League records that still stand). He batted over .300 in eleven seasons, led the league in homers six times, wound up with a lifetime average of .304. Giant fans called Mel Ott "the Little Giant," watched fondly as he took his straight-up, lefthanded stance, kicked his right foot up to get all his 160 lbs. into the swing, and pumped another home run into the stands...
House athletic teams won six of eleven contests with Yale colleges yesterday afternoon, including two of the three championship games. One football game between Lowell and Pierson College wound...