Word: chest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From 1795, when the Library get too big for the chest and had to be put in a book case, until 1816 the records of the Library have been lost, but by that year the books had been put in the Library Room, Holworthy 24, which was the fortnightly gathering place for the club...
...double the dues of 1? per month per man which member unions contribute to the Federation-an increase that will have to be voluntary until ratified by a Federation convention-for a war chest...
...thymus is usually fat and flabby. Because the thymus presses upon the windpipe, gullet, large blood vessels and nerves, a thymic baby when excited will develop harsh breathing, turn blue, hold his breath, go into convulsions. Immediate remedy is an oxygen tent. X-rays of the infant's chest will reveal any enlargement of the thymus. X-ray irradiations will reduce an enlarged thymus. The complexions of thymic children after irradiation never seem to grow old, always remain peaches & cream...
Then another son of Finn Mac Cool's leaped into her mouth, and when he had passed into her chest (this is the legend's anatomy, not mine) he bethought him of his knife. With it, he made a gash in the monster's side which killed her. " 'Twas a wonderful slaughter," says the tale, putting the statement, for modesty's sake, in parentheses...
...Victoria Embankment, 40,000 school children in berets of maroon, green and blue swarm into their places. Peter Suffren, 6, with a row of tin medals on his chest and clutching a bottle of milk, a bag of potato chips, says: "I wish I had a princess for a girl...