Word: chest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Largest salary earned by any of these men was that of Sheriff Farley-$15,000 per year for the two years he has been sheriff. Realists realized that the officials did not profit much personally, that their mysterious incomes were simply collections for the Tammany campaign chest, party graft, not individual...
Gorillas are often less hairy than men, Professor Adolph Hans Schultz of Johns Hopkins reported last week. By personal count he found that men averaged 312 hairs on each square centimeter of scalp, 9 per sq. cm. of chest; gorillas 4.5 of chest, 307 of scalp. This indicated that clothes have not marred the human pelt...
...Yale it is another indication that she has the welfare of her community at heart. Having given $15,000 in cash to the community chest, and having provided $100,000 to create employment, she has already done New Haven a generous deed but in a less fantastic way. This coupled with her participation in the plan announced today, shows her willingness to meet extraordinary proposals called for by the present acute emergency...
...purpose of the floor work, Ulen said that a swimmer may have very good form but that before the season has progressed very far he often finds that he lacks the stamina to carry on. The body-building exercises serve to strengthen the muscles of the trunk and chest and thus enable the swimmer to develop greater stamina. They also give him a chance to develop the shoulder and hip muscles necessary to the improvement of the arm stroke and the leg drive respectively. Along in February the swimmer finds that as a result of the floor work before entering...
...Scots fought with sticks and bottles while their gudewives cheered them on from the upper stones, threw down broken furniture, flower pots, and in one case a large tin trunk on the heads of the hard-pressed constabulary. One gigantic battler kept six constables busy sitting on his head, chest, arms and legs in the station house. Mr. McGovern, M. P., limped into police court complaining bitterly that some policeman had given way to his feelings and booted him violently on the fundament, causing a painful bruise at the base of his spine...