Word: chested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dividend chest of the Harvard Cooperative Society will be ready for distribution on October 15, at which date students will receive a discount for all purchases made last year...
...Harvard and Radcliffe students who were members of the Society last year will be reimbursed according to the amount of their purchases. Last year the dividend chest held $76,000. This year it will total $89,000. Dividends this year range from...
Postmistress Esther McCollum of Conyers, Ga., told that she had always understood she must pay 5% of her salary, or some $100 per annum, into the campaign chest of the Republicans responsible for her appointment...
...instead of singing, delivered a brief address on his life. "Sing, sing!" shouted the bad actors. Chaliapin drew a charcoal cartoon of himself which amused his audience but did not stop their demands for song. Chaliapin rose a third time, went through the motions of an aria, puffing his chest, swinging his arms, opening and shutting his mouth like a large Russian goldfish, without making a sound. After the performance was over, he said that he could not sing for nothing because of his contracts...
...dissolve in the moisture of the nasal passages. Sharp-edged, insoluble, they penetrate the lungs, enter the cells. The crowded cells clump together. In an effort to protect the body, fibres begin to grow around the "clumps." Gradually the lungs choke up with the tough fibrous growth, the chest becomes rigid, cannot expand; breathing becomes difficult; tubercle baccilli find a rich, fertile breeding ground; the rock driller dies of silicosis, tuberculosis, or both...