Word: wound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professional baseball has again covered itself with mud. Two players have tried to discredit the sport which they represent, for the sake of victory. What effect this incident will have on the national game is hard to predict. The wound which the White Sox inflicted in 1919 may prove still sensitive to the salt of scandal...
...Sept. 2, 1914, a month after the outbreak of a recent war, Congress, by statute, authorized the Treasury Department to insure U. S. merchant vessels and their cargoes against the hazards of war. Thus came into being the Bureau of War Risk Insurance. Last week, this insurance business was "wound up"; it has ceased to exist...
...well. His hatred of Gawin Todd never slept. At last the two met, high words passed, a challenge was given. They fought at dawn by the river. As Richard Bale lifted his pistol, the rising sun fell in his" eyes and, his own shot missing, he received a mortal wound. The cartel per mitted a second exchange if either 'demanded. Bale, strapped with his scarf to a sapling, shot his enemy dead and died himself in the the arms of his second while his slaves were rowing him, chanting as they rowed, over the dawn-lit river...
...police, he directed them to the village of Pskoff, to search the doings of Priest Troitski, to bring him to justice. At Pskoff the police heard tales. Troitski had an ikon, a painted image of the Blessed Virgin whose tears, copiously shed, performed miracles. One teardrop, applied to a wound, healed it. By virtue of the tears, Lydia Belskaya was cured of scrofula, Nadya Kolkova of a chronic abscess, Natasha Arcipova of paralysis. Thousands of tears had been efficaciously shed. The police-themselves but humble Bolsheviks-trembled to lay hands upon the holy man who conducted so holy a shrine...
Having won the javelin-throw and the 10,000-metre run, the Finns held off until the pentathlon. Then Lehtonen again goaded the Americans and a Hungarian, Sonfay, sprinkled salt in the wound by taking first and second respectively, from R. Legendre. Up went the blue and white ensign on the victory flagpole a third time...