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Word: breast (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...found it paid better to pretend ignorance of the language and go around with an interpreter. Two Guns made friends with James Jerome Hill's son Louis, now director of Great Northern. The grateful Great Northern hired Two Guns, along with such of his compatriots as Owen Heavy Breast, George Bull Child and Mike Short Man, sent him far & wide through the country as a living representative of the Great West-as-it-could-be-found-along-the-Great Northern. Two Guns won further fame when in 1913 the buffalo nickel was minted, for he was touted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Greater Son | 3/26/1934 | See Source »

...married to a syphilitic harlot who haggles with her husband nightly over the price he must pay to sleep with her, that the youth marries the illegitimate daughter of a tattoo artist who destroys their connubial bliss by insisting her portrait be pricekd indelibly on her husband's left breast--these delightful details are merely the sauce of morbidity and unreality with which the main dish is seasoned, in order to increase the intensity of its flavour and heighton the effect of the final bitter, climax. The story ends: "Choster turned then and run down the brick walk and when...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 3/20/1934 | See Source »

...region was inhabited half a millennium ago by a rich and industrious people, culturally apart from the Incas to the south, from the Mayas and Aztecs to the north. Christopher Columbus encountered them on his fourth and last voyage (1502), went home to tell of their massive gold breast ornaments. Before long Panama was swarming with gold-hungry Spaniards, killing, pillaging, torturing, sending streams of gleaming booty to the coast. More than once the wily Coclés fought off their tormentors, and in 1531 a few unconquered survivors retreated west to the high Sierras, where their descendants still live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

...free style events, Yale is conceded a decided advantage over Harvard. A. Gregory James on '37 will be hard pressed in the 200 yard swim by Cooke of the Blue aggregation. The Harvard mermen are expected to redeem themselves however, in the dive, the breast stroke, and the backstroke. Carl L. Goulland '37 is slated to take the honors in the 150 yard backstroke, George A. Pedge '37 will, as usual, constitute a serious threat to his opponent in the dive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Swimmers Travel To New Haven for Final Till | 3/14/1934 | See Source »

...yard Breast Stroke Swim--Won by M. Victor Leventritt '35; second, Anderson C. Dearing, Jr. '34; third, D. Chalmers (F & M). Time--2 minutes, 37 2-5 seconds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STOWELL TAKES EVENT; HARVARD DOWNS F. & M. | 3/10/1934 | See Source »

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