Word: woundings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wrist Watch. Winding the wrist watch is one of those unpleasant little bedtime duties frequently forgotten. From the Isle of Man comes the device of John Harwood making it no longer necessary. The watch is constructed on the principle of the pedometer, being wound by the movements of the forearm...
Increased lethal effect is obtained by softening the nose of the bullet to make it spread at impact. Steel jacketed bullets shoot straightest and farthest but bore clean holes instead of smashing a wide wound. Various powder loads have various killing power, but following is a rough table of the calibres and types of bullets generally recommended for various types of killing by rifle...
...blood of a haemophile does not congeal normally upon contact with the air, and thus the slightest wound leads to profuse bleeding, due to the extreme retardation of the process vulgarly called "healing." Now it happens that from the haemophilic House of Hesse-Darmstadt have sprung the last of the Russian Tsarinas, Alexandra, and the present Queen Victoria Eugénie of Spain. To each of these exalted mothers came the bitter pang of recognizing in her first born son a haemophile...
...chief speechmaker used the words "progress" and "progressive" nine times in ten paragraphs, and made the customary references to Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln. A woman, Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, said that women "crave" a President with an understanding, a human heart. She quoted Kipling's Recessional and wound up: "The country needs a leader and we offer, with entire confidence and affection, Governor Alfred E. Smith, God bless...
...those who had stood near the lamp post 18 were killed. One was a woman who had stepped to her window nearby a bare instant before the explosion. At her a flying bit of iron lamp post hurtled, inflicting a mortal wound...