Word: wrenching
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...injury to Captain Burr, which at first appeared to be merely a wrench of the arm, has proved to be more serious. On closer examination it was found that the shoulder itself was badly injured and one or two of the ligaments torn. This being the case, it is impossible for him to play against either Carlisle or Dartmouth, but it does not prevent the possibility of his being able to play against Yale at New Haven on the twenty-first. The tearing of the ligaments which has taken place will take considerable time to heal, but it remains...
...resignations of the following men were received and accepted, to take place September 1, 1908: M. A. Campbell, Ph.D., assistant in philosophy; R. A. Hall, Ph.D., research assistant in biological chemistry; W. E. Lunt, Ph.D., assistant in history; C. T. Broeck, Austin Teaching Fellow in comparative pathology; J. E. Wrench, A.B., Austin Teaching Fellow in history...
...much discussed question of subscriptions the trouble at bottom is a pretty simple one. We most of us are glad to have our expenses for us when this can be decently arranged. It is often a wrench to subscribed, and it is annoying to be dunned for objects for which we do not intend to give anything. This is a thing which pursues us through life, and the more a man gives the more he is applied to. About the only people who are left alone are those who are notoriously mean...