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Word: breast (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mary Sandler took both the 220 and 440 freestyles, while Charlie Egan in the individualy medley, Don Mulvey in the backstroke, and Ralph Zani in the breast-stroke were the other Harvard winners...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swimmers Crush Weak Penn, 68-16 | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

...taking the affectations of our ancestors and making them endearing." He laid out his action first with the help of some young Broadway actors. When he finally got a chance to drill the singers, he had most of their movements plotted like a minuet ("If you beat your breast, I'll kill you!"). All told, he had the cast onstage for 17 hours of instructions, cajolings and threats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mozart at the Met | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

...attempt was made to hide the child's death. The body was beautifully embalmed after the expensive fashion of the upper classes. Wrapped in the best flaxen cloth and smeared with gum, its name inscribed on the breast bandages, it was given a noble burial near the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes. Some 1,700 years later, the murderer safe from any temporal justice, the body turned up as a well-preserved mummy in British Columbia's Vancouver City Museum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Murdered Mummy | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

Soon Raynaud was shipping out 100 bottles a day, at 300 to 1,000 francs a bottle. A grateful Swedish lady testified: "Thanks to your perfume I rediscovered the love of my fiance who, formerly very cold, now leaps with passion on to my perfumed breast." Wrote a Minnesota housewife: "Thanks to your perfume my husband came back to me. Please send another bottle so I can hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Perfume of Illusion | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

...stress of White House toil, and at the urging of White House physician General Wallace Graham to get the President to sleep a little later in the morning. Last week sharp-eyed reporters noted another alteration in the President's personal routine-after years of folding his breast-pocket handkerchief so that four geometrically perfect points protruded, he appeared with a quarter inch of straight, unfolded cloth peeping casually into view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No Hike, New Hanky | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

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