Word: chested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They did not hang the Lowmans; theirs was a refinement of the tactics of most lynchers. When they had gone a few miles out of town they set the Lowmans free. They told them to run, shot them in the face and chest as they turned for one despairing look...
...Dundee, N. Y., at the county fair, one Otis Dowland, in tights, flexed his biceps, patted his stomach, pouted his chest, lay on the ground. A plank was laid across his abdomen, an automobile driven towards him with the righthand wheels on the plank. Otis Dowland empurpled his face with straining, scowled up at the crowd, as the automobile ascended its human bump. The car's driver, a stupid bumpkin, stalled the engine in mid-plank. Strongman Dowland grimaced, retched, shrieked. The car was pushed away. Strongman was whisked to a hospital, where doctors pronounced his vitals...
...last month a small young woman whose chest expansion exceeds that of mighty Jack Demp-sey- traveled from city to city in the U. S. Every night but Sunday she performed a strange rite. Entering a small cubicle engaged for her in advance, she closed the door, molded a blob of wax, placed it on the bridge of her flattish nose. She fastened flesh-tinted court-plaster to her slanting eyes, creamed and powdered her broad cheeks, all so deftly that an Indo-European girl, or at most a Eurasian, left the dressing-room where a little Nipponese had gone...
...that the 1927 men have had a taste of real action. M. A. Cheek '26, and Karl Plaffman '24, class team coaches, were in the Sophomore line-up, and the former accounted for the only score of the play when a forward pass bounded into his hands from the chest of a 1927 end. Coach Plaffman modestly declined to drop-kick the goal...
Every 1930 student was notified in his registration envelope to report for an X-ray examination. The photographs were taken of the chest, and while the proofs have not yet been returned to Wadsworth House, it is expected that they will give information about the heart, and lungs that will prove invaluable able to the regular physical examinations...