Word: chest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...title and a diplomatic uniform of sorts, I cannot give you a title but I am sending you a uniform by express." Two days later Chairman Fletcher received a large box from A. G. Spalding & Bros, from which he extracted a football headguard, a catcher's mask, a chest protector, shin guards, a metal athletic supporter...
...Daily Mail hall porter, one Glover, to be its head. He defended his action in a remarkable memorandum: "He [Northcliffe] had long consultations with Mr. Glover . . . and was profoundly impressed by Glover's horror of advertisements that destroy the news columns and, I may add, by his remarkable chest measurement and reach. . . . He strips in the ring at 18 stone and has a reach longer than Dempsey...
...Well, raise your chest up. There's very few of us left...
...Cologne last week and in the pages of Moving Forward it appeared that Mr. Ford wished first to get off his chest a deep grudge against the stockmarket. "This 'depression' we hear about," he told Cologne reporters, "is due to laziness! People wanted something for nothing. . . . They wanted to gamble on the stock exchange. They didn't want to work. The crash was a good thing; it has made them start working and thinking again. That will lead to new levels, new attainments in quality and a new era of prosperity. You watch. It is coming...
...famed St. Martin case. Marie Overby, 9, and her mother had been motoring near the city. Their car became entangled in a fallen high-power transmission line. Mrs. Overby was electrocuted. Rescuers rushed Marie to Little Rock where hospital attendants discovered a nine-inch hole burned through her left chest wall. Flesh, ribs and pleura were gone. The left lung had collapsed. But her heart was beating strongly. She said she felt no pain. There was no possible hope of saving her. So the doctors, mindful of the professional value of an exposed heart action, dragged in a moving picture...