Word: woundings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with a knife fell upon the dummy's throat and gashed it open. He then splattered a red fluid (mercurochrome) around the wound. The Birming-hamians howled for joy. Some fired revolver shots into the "corpse." Others kicked it, spit at it. Others got a rope, noosed it, dragged it around the hall for a hanging...
...great Stefan Raditch, uncle of Paul, and Leader of the Opposition, was the assassin's primary target but received only a bullet wound in the stomach from which he was said, last week, to be "rapidly recovering...
...University baseball team wound up its preliminary season by downing a stubborn Tufts nine 5 to 4 at Medford on Saturday...
Science helped settle the Muscle Shoals question by making obsolescent that process of fertilizer manufacture which requires water power to make the nitrates. Nebraska's Norris, who fought the farmers' fight in the Senate, wound up by admitting that Muscle Shoals fertilizer would probably not be cheap enough. The measure he pressed and got passed last winter dealt chiefly with Muscle Shoals water power, leaving the Department of Agriculture to experiment with fertilizer as a byproduct. The Senate voted for Government operation when persuaded that a Power Lobby had gone to extreme lengths to oppose...
Last week Paleontologist Walter Granger motored 100 miles to a telegraph post to tell civilization that Leader Andrews had been shot in the leg but that his wound was not serious. The gun was his own, accidentally discharged during an antelope hunt; the leg was his own, accidentally in the way. It is probable that Antelope-Hunter Andrews quoted Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson's famed remark, as he has done before: "Adventures are a mark of incompetence...