Injury, hurt, wound refer to impairments or wrongs. Injury, originally denoting a wrong done or suffered, is hence used for any kind of evil, impairment, or loss, caused or sustained: physical injury; injury to one's reputation. Hurt suggests especially physical injury, often bodily injury attended with pain: a bad hurt from a fall. A wound is usually a physical hurt caused by cutting, shooting, etc., or an emotional hurt: a serious wound in the shoulder; to inflict a wound by betraying someone's trust. Antonyms Expand. 1. benefit.
Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 US 537 (1896). John Howard Ferguson was the judge in Orleans Parish, Louisiana, who heard the case of Homer A. Plessy under the Separate Car Act of 1890. Judge Ferguson had previously ruled that the act did not apply to interstate travel.
Miriam Ferguson was the first female governor of Texas during her terms of 1925 â 1927 and 1932 â 1935. Ferguson was born in Bell County, Texas in 1875, and attended Salado college and Baylor college for women at Belton. In 1899 she married James Edward Ferguson, who was also from Bell County, Texas.