Word: chested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contribution to the Democratic campaign fund last summer, have made him a prime political power. Needing money for the C. I. O. campaign which has carried him to Labor's peak, he raised-and can raise again when he needs to-a $1,000,000 war chest simply by tapping each of his miners $1 per month for two months. As he sped back to Michigan last week with the coal settlement in his pocket, Leader Lewis and U. M. W. had once again given public and employers an object lesson in industrial order, furnished unruly new automobile unionists...
...heat kills them directly or whether the heat stimulates germicidal substances in the body is moot among doctors. In that fog they stand close to medieval predecessors who cured paresis by running threads, horse hairs or bristles (collectively called setons) under the scalp and under the skin of the chest. The setons, medieval theorists argued, caused a flow of "laudable pus" from the chest and head...
...protect his mistress, began to growl at his master. Policeman Conroy drew his revolver, waved it admonishingly. The big police dog did what his master had taught him always to do when he saw an armed man. He catapulted with all four feet against the policeman's chest and belly. Down in a heap went man and dog. Bang went the gun, putting a bullet through Patrick Conroy's heart...
...truck a tense-faced man of 30 pulled a football helmet on his head, strapped it firmly under his chin. Unbuttoning his topcoat he fingered a steel-ribbed corset beneath his bathing suit, adjusted the pads on his shoulders, chest and knees. "Here's the place," said the driver, stopping the truck close to the guardrail on the span about two thirds the distance to Yerba Buena Island. "We're three minutes late." In an auto on the ramp over their heads, a cameraman for the San Francisco Examiner (morning Hearst-paper) was checking his shutter adjustment, squinting...
...sentenced within five days of the jury's verdict and must be fully aware of the sentence. So Judge Frank M. Smith went to the jail's hospital to see if he could pass sentence there. The woman lay on her back, arms folded over her chest, breathing slowly, her lips twitching. Apparently Helen Love was not only unaware of Judge Smith, but of a score of doctors, lawyers, jailers, reporters, photographers gathered in her cell. Dr. Benjamin Blank, jail physician, told the judge that Mrs. Love's condition was "mental," but that she was not "insane...