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Word: chestful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When John Llewellyn Lewis wants $1,000,000, all he has to do is assess his 500,000 United Mine Workers $1 each per month for two months. Last week, to build a war chest which would prime the No. 1 U. S. union for any emergency, he announced such assessments. The emergency might be a nation-wide bituminous coal strike, operators having warned last week that they would up the work week from 35 to 40 hours when the current contract expires March 31. Or it might be a steel strike. Some 250 steel company-union leaders rallied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Strikes-of-the-Week | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...grand fellow!' As a result the King has thrown out his chest. . . . The attraction between them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Edvardus Rex | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...honor was held a fancy dress ball that is still the talk of the West Fifties. Mme Dali wore a dress of transparent red paper and a headdress made of boiled lobsters and a doll's head. Artist Dali wore a glass case on his chest containing a brassiere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Marvelous & Fantastic | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...Denver, Victor Coradi burst out laughing when a $1 pistol he had bought to kill himself exploded, sent a bullet bouncing harmlessly against his chest. Calmed by police, Victor Coradi announced he would try to go on living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Yugoslavia | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

Corpus Christi's interfaith venture, probably unique in the U. S., owes much to the calibre of its brotherly shepherds. Rector Munds, 44, is president of the city's Community Chest, its Planning Commission, and chairman of the Boy Scouts. Rabbi Wolf, 30 next month, is a Rotarian, member of the Civic Music Association, chairman of the county Red Cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Love in Corpus Christi | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

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