Word: chested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year old University Janitor is in the Cambridge Municipal Hospital and his condition was declared "poor", yesterday, with Hospital authorities implying that because of his age he will not recover. Badly burned from the hips down and with minor burns about his chest and hands, Perkins, who has been working for the college since 1917, has been conscious all the time with considerable pain...
...petroleum industry. While William Green was sending out 50 fresh organizers, the C.I.O. laid plans for sending out 400 in the textile industry alone. More significant was the disparity between the two in dollars. Blithely C.I.O. appropriated $500,000 for its textile drive, announced it had a war chest of $3,000,000. Observers believed A. F. of L. unions would soon have to raise dues to make up for revenues lost by C.I.O. defections. U. S. organized Labor's mortal combat, anticipated for two years (TIME...
...lungs are two irregular conical shaped organs occupying the chest. At birth and for three weeks thereafter they are white. Gradually they darken to yellowish grey or reddish grey in the adult. People who live in smoky cities like St. Louis (TIME, Feb. 22) have their lungs marbled with black and blue lines from particles of soot. Coal miners' lungs are black, copper miners' are blue...
...real ashes. He explained that when, after the final match at Melbourne, English ladies had celebrated the victory by running out onto the field and setting fire to the stumps, he had carefully collected the remains. Currently, the ashes imported by dashing Ivo Bligh are in the Trophy Chest at Lord's, capital of British cricket, as a monument to an immortal British joke...
...record. Santa Anita's backers have put much of their profits into improvements. This year they are spending $25,000 on Peruvian olive trees in the paddock, Bird of Paradise plants on the terraces. Santa Anita's $50,000 to the 1936 Los Angeles Community Chest was that charity's biggest single contribution. The law allows a track to keep 8% of all mutuel bets and "breakage"-odd nickels and pennies when bets are paid off to a dime. Two years ago the Santa Anita management agreed to take only 6%. Last year, breakage at Santa Anita...