Word: chested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could soon control cancer. Nearest approach to that, before last week's gift, was $2,000,000 which Steelmaker William Henry Donner of Philadelphia, transient father-in-law of Elliott Roosevelt, gave for an International Cancer Research Foundation (TIME, June 20, 1932). Before that the biggest cancer war chest was the $1,400,000 of the George Crocker Institute for Cancer Research, which Dr. Francis Carter Wood manages at Columbia University...
Onto the parade ground rode the royal procession. King George came first as Colonel-in-Chief of the Grenadiers, with the bright blue ribbon of the Garter across his chest. Behind rode his aides: the Dukes of Gloucester and Kent, the Earls of Athlone and Harewood and Prince Arthur of Connaught, behind them again, a patchwork of bright color, gilt and jangle, all the foreign military attaches. Passing the balcony of the Horse Guards Building where stood Mary, the Queen Mother and Queen Elizabeth, King George looked up from under his extinguisher of a busby and smiled. Princess Elizabeth waved...
...effect, where only seven flourished a year ago. The 47 current agreements cover 78 newspapers (many of them chainpapers). Membership in the twelve-month had increased from 5,716 to 11,112. The treasury had $231 on hand last year, $10,049 this year. A $20,000 war chest is to be collected. In one important aspect, however, the Guild remained unchanged. The convention's votes (143 this year) are still dominated by the solid bloc of 24 from the New York City delegation, which is affectionately devoted and subservient to Scripps-Howard Columnist Heywood Broun, the Guild...
...three live wolves in his office. When he arrived at the Cleveland fairgrounds and saw the waters of Lake Erie rippling at his feet, he decided to stage a revue in and on the water, a sort of marine circus. He immediately had a dolphin tattooed on his chest and went around saying...
Fifteen times every minute a suction pump creates a slight vacuum within the respirator. This lifts Fred Snite's chest and pulls one pint of fresh air into his lungs. When the pump releases the vacuum, his chest falls and he exhales. Every time the machine inhales for him, the rubber ruff hugs his neck, and it was a long time before he learned to ignore the sensation of being throttled 21,600 times a day. Another annoyance to be ignored was the incessant throbbing of the pump. But he quickly learned to control his tongue and prevent...