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Word: chested (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Throw out the life line, Throw out the life line, Someone is drifting away. Throw out the life line, Throw out the life line, Someone is sinking today; then found themselves refreshed in body with the chest exercise and in soul with the sentiment, they would wonder about famed Mr. Anonymous, the author so far as they knew. Last week the Boston Globe disclosed the man, pushed him to the fore, named him as the septuagenarian Rev. Edward S. Ufford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Life Line | 2/1/1926 | See Source »

...Sphinx's Egyptian beard, which descended from the chin to the chest, disappeared centuries ago; and its loss threw a tremendous strain on the neck. Now the back and sides of the neck have been worn away by the erosion of time and there is danger that the head may topple off. At present the head leans slightly forward, but its weight has been eased by the breaking off of large parts of the headdress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Crumbling Sphinx | 12/28/1925 | See Source »

...Portadown, Ulster, the Rev. W. P. Nicholson costumed himself to preach his Sunday sermon. He rolled his trousers up to his knees, exposing two fine stretches of fatted calf. He unbuttoned his shirt, baring a chest mottled with a biblical growth of curly hair. Then he mounted his pulpit. "I want to show the girls," he announced to his gasping, giggling, shrinking congregation, "how they look to others when . . . they wear short, sleeveless, low-necked frocks. I strongly . . . condemn such costumes. They bring tears to the eyes of the girls' elders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dec. 21, 1925 | 12/21/1925 | See Source »

...waterfall, roared in his ears; he heard a thudding step behind him; a thread brushed his chest- and someone was wrapping him in a blanket, thumping him on the back, telling him he had made it, had beaten Loucks by a yard after six miles. Third-100 yards behind-struggled Arthur Hillman of Maine, and behind him the gasping, wavering, dogged pack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hill-and-Dale | 12/7/1925 | See Source »

...poetry?" He has not added "one more." He explains with becoming lightness that he has tried to pick poems for their mental reaction on the reader; for example, if a person suffers from mental malnutrition, he might prescribe spiritual vitamines. The subtitle of his book is "A Pocket Medicine Chest of Verse." He furnishes 14 packets of medicine for specific mental ailments: "Stimulants for a Faint Heart (Poems of Courage)"; "Mental Cocktails and Spiritual Pick-Me-Ups (Poems of Laughter)"; "Massage for a Muscle-bound Spirit (Poems of Emancipation)"; "Poppy Juice for Insomnia (Soothers and Soporifics)"; "To Deflate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fauts and Folly | 12/7/1925 | See Source »

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