Word: wound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some of the Order proceeded up che main aisle to the high altar where the Pro-Grand Master received an offering of gold from the Almoner and presented it to the Dean, who dedicated it. Then sounded a joyous fanfare of trumpets and the procession re-formed and wound its way to the Chapel of Edward the Confessor, patron of the Order, to lay the gold on the altar there. The Dean delivered himself of a brief address and the choir sang the 68th Psalm to a harmonized Gregorian chant. The Order then marched in solemn procession around the Abbey...
...devoted much of the time to accustoming themselves to their first ice-work of the year, and to handling their sticks. Following the individual work each half of the squad wound up its period with a scrimmage. These will be few in number during the next few days because, except for two afternoons a week, the University will probably have to share the ice during the coming fortnight with other local teams having early season engagements...
...days football was more strenuous sport than today will find ample evidence to support such a view in this first description. Wrestling and tripping were permitted. It being recorded that "careful Terrence . . . . Ran to the Swain and caught his Arm behind; A dextrous Crook about his Leg he wound, And laid the Champion grov'ling on the Ground". As Mr. Williams who reviewed the poem for the London Outlook aptly said, Terrence "would probably be ordered off the field in these degenerate days". Yet these men of Soards and Lusk would probably have fied amazed had a modern gridiron hero...
Hampden's performance is as a spring wound up, the motive power for a successful run. Less important but equally satisfactory are the elaborate, tasteful settings and the exceeding free, and altogether new, translation into blank verse by Brian Hooker...
...longer consider dispatching their quarrels out of court. It must not be forgotten, however, that there still remains a class of individuals who jealously guard the code of honor the individual nations. And fortunately they guard it so jealously that they are not satisfied by a mere throat wound...