Word: busting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brain in a proper sense of the word. Memory is a mental function, and it is more or less inevitable that the student with the best memory is going to show the best answers to such a test. The young men, that is to say, did their bust not so much to tell what they thought or to show how they could think as to tell about thinkers and show that they remembered of what thinkers have thought. That is undoubtedly a brain test Whether it is the ideal test of brain power is another matter...
...assistants and myself have studied every type of stout figure, and so, whether you are tall or short, whether you are large in the bust, with small hips, or small in the bust, with large hips, whatever your figure, we know...
...Lane Bryant, dressmaker, made negligees for fat women; Mrs. Lane Bryant Malsin, dressmaker, made garments to "conceal the condition" [of ma- ternity]. Lane Bryant, Inc., with stores in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Detroit, St. Louis, Baltimore and Chicago, make fashions "which slenderize and flatter your figure . . . sizes 36 to 58 bust...
...bust, executed in white marble, of the late Dr. John CoHins Warren '63 is to be placed in the Warren Museum of the Harvard Medical School, it was announced yesterday by the committee in charge of the work...
...Paramino was awarded the commission of modelling the bust by C. A. Coolidge '81 and F. C. Shattuck '68, the committee members. The work was made possible by a fund subscribed wholly by Medical School physicians...