Word: chested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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FROM a narrow, blue sea-chest stuffed with maps, tall log-books, cash-books, account-books, diaries, and musty bills of lading. Robert Coffin has gleaned much of the material for his true tale of the voyages of Captain John Pennell and wife, Abby, of Casco Bay, Maine. From these documents he has constructed a simple New England odyssey of a Down-East family who made their home upon the sea and whose travels in a tall-masted clipper took them to every corner of a world which was much broader in 1840 than it is today...
...tiny silica or quartz particles which cause silicosis are about 3/25,000 of an inch in size. They irritate the lungs, cause formation of small, stony nodules, which bring about shortness of breath, a dry cough, pain in the chest. Silicosis alone is not serious, painful or disabling. Essentially it is just a case of dirty lungs. But silicotics are extraordinarily susceptible to tuberculosis, frequently die from it. Dust from "chat" piles, according to the Kansas State Board of Health, is a potential menace to all Tri-State inhabitants. Only ways to prevent silicosis in the mines...
...temporary "war-chest" voted by the Corporation for the present year has merely postponed the Council's fate. With an annual schedule of fifty debates, its expenses total about $200, only a fraction of which can be raised by the newly-instituted membership dues. Unless some way of obtaining funds is found, the Council will be obliged to shut up shop next year--leaving the Coolidge prizes to be awarded to the best debaters on a nonexistent team...
...white whale (Delphinapterus leucas) is a splendid denizen of the arctic deeps. The young, three or four feet long at birth, are black; the adults, 16 to 18 feet long, are milky white. They have highly developed blood systems in the chest region, and their brains are plentifully supplied with blood...
...tune of $17,500,000. The late great Republican Senator James Couzens moved to investigate the ethics of Mr. Cummings' $90,000-plus annual salary intake from RFC babies while he was Treasurer of the Democratic party. But the Democrats collected a good war chest and won the 1936 election, and all was forgotten...