Word: chest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...International Boxing Union, but the New York State Athletic Commission, and the National Boxing Association recognize Tacoma's Freddy Steele. This dilemma Promoter Jacobs resolved to his satisfaction. He imported Champion Thil, bullnecked, bulging-shouldered athletic oldster of 33, bald on his head but well furred on chest and back. By matching him not against Champion Steele but against the No.1 U. S. challenger, San Francisco's Fred Apostoli, Mike Jacobs left the way clear for another championship bout. Boxer Apostoli won half of the first eight rounds. In the ninth a solid left hook opened a long...
...Ignacio the high-born stretched on the stone . . . Now he is finished. The rain enters his mouth. Like mad, his breath rushes from his staved-in chest, and Love, drenched in tears of snow, thaws upon the peaks of the cattle-lands. What do they say? Here lies a stinking silence...
...aluminum hood which covers the entire torso from hips to collar bone. Intermittent air suction in the abdominal hood expands and contracts a patient's lungs by forcing his diaphragm up and down. Similar suction in the torso hood compels breathing by moving both the diaphragm and the chest wall...
...preacher of burning zeal, Fray Junipero moved his people to penitential awe with such mortifications as applying a torch to his bare chest and beating it with stones. With a party of 15 he visited the missions of Lower California, then struck north into new and unsaved territory. At San Diego in 1769 he established Upper California's first mission which was, like all the others, a civil as well as a spiritual outpost. A mission consisted of a church, a residence of the fathers, a presidio or military guard, shops and workrooms in which to instruct Indians...
...until frost ends the season of danger. Meanwhile Omaha children may not go to Sunday school, theatres, parks or swimming pools. Omaha has not a single mechanical respirator similar to that in which Frederick Snite was transported from Peiping to Chicago (TIME, June 14), and every Omaha child whose chest was paralyzed this summer has died in spite of efforts by Omaha's fire department's inhalator squad...