Word: chested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have a look at the "spindle-legged" and "hollow-chested" American youth who at this moment adorns the garages and boulevards of Cambridge because he prefers the broad highway to the gridiron, or diamond. It is easy to see that the automobile owners at Harvard come, as a rule, from the wealthier prep school element, since high school men being more studious have less time for joy riding. It is in the prep schools that athletics are compulsory and it is from there that most of Harvard's great athletes come. You will find, therefore, that the prep school...
...enough credit left to pay off the messenger who brings a parcel for his bride, the extremities to which he is forced to evade the fearsome Cambodians, may be imagined. To round out the plot there is a French widow with a prodigious family of daughters and a treasure chest for the Crown Prince of Siam. Numerous officers and the Crown Prince himself take care of the daughters, and the Regent looks out for the treasure chest and incidentally, the window...
...There is tragedy when the village bad boy dies to rescue a contemporary from drowning. The book is like a score of others, but Mr. Cobb's insight into the preadolescent intelligence or his recollection of the days immediately before the first hair curved proudly on the youthful chest is shrewder than most...
...principle of the community chest, which has been in successful operation for so considerable a time in other large cities that an explanation is superfluous, is the obvious solution, and has been so considered by the committee in addition to providing control of finances, moreover, the community chest may also serve as a powerful weapon against undesirable institutions. Although this consideration seems to have escaped the committee, it has been thoroughly established by experiment in other cities. An organization which has not received the stamp of approval of the community chest by being included in its budget may fairly...
...wide appeal to a larger number of persons, the principle of the community chest makes social service finance a relatively simple matter; and by its control of institutions, it assures the public that the money of contributors is neither misdirected nor wasted...