Word: chested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...until it is as high as a man can reach. The one-or two-arm "snatch" consists of lifting it with a single motion of one or both hands. The one-or two-arm "clean and jerk" consists of lifting it with one or both hands, first to the chest, then jerking to above the head..The two-arm "military press" is complex. This consists in lifting it to the chest, taking a deep breath, counting two, then slowly raising it above the head...
...additional men arrived, some 20 rebels appeared on the sky line of the railroad fill and the patrol opened fire. The rebels were routed, but Private First Class (no buck private as you put it) John Phinnizee was shot through the chest...
...surplus not what definite sum it is not going to be allowed to accumulate to. It is too much to hope that Harvard men will continue smilingly to pay five dollars a ticket to see football games when part of this sum is going to fill a secret chest which may be locked at the bottom of the sea for all anyone knows about it. Like it or not the Corporation will sometime have to explain this hoarding of a growing fund, and wisdom should dictate that they do so before the chances for misinterpretation and ill-will become...
...school, next showed to the reporter a pulse-rate recorder which he has devised for use in the Business School Fatigue Laboratories and in similar institutions. The small amount of current produced by each beat of the heart is picked up by two electrodes fastened to the patient's chest. The electric impulse is transmitted to an amplifier, which enables a buzzer or a tape recorder to be used in connection with the apparatus...
...Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. Ten thousand persons battled for admission. Standing room soared to $25. Mounted police handled the crowds outside. Within the old red and gold auditorium, humped in an inconspicuous seat, waited General Manager Gatti-Casazza. sphinxlike, beard sunk deep on his chest, pondering the ways of music in the U. S. Up in his box, sleek, important, pleased, sat the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Otto H. Kahn. And in that over-stuffed audience were heard the boastings of the Mayor and 200 citizens of Kansas City who had paid...