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Word: chestful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...While these experimental studies were in progress," the doctors were called on to treat severe back and chest burns of a 15-year-old girl. They gently bathed her in soap and water, but gave her no tannic acid, permitted only occasional mouthfuls of water to moisten her throat, and placed her in an oxygen tent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Blood & Water | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...house, entered the master bedroom. On a three-quarter-size bed, on top of the covers, lay the man he had come to see: Dr. Walter Engelberg, 42, secretary of the Consulate. Dr. Engelberg was dressed in an old-fashioned white nightgown, his hands folded peacefully across his chest, the fingers extended. His head had been smashed by three blows. Obliterated were two sabre scars, marks of duels. He had been dead 24 hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Case of the Bedroom Slippers | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Japanese soldiers were caked in mud, chest high; their beards were bristling with two weeks' growth; and they were ravenously hungry. The peasants, in fleeing before the approach of the Japanese, had taken their pigs, cows, grain and other food with them into the hills where the Japanese could not follow. All through the valley, tiny Japanese garrisons were mired in mud, unable to communicate with one another, and slowly starving. When off duty, simple soldiers would sneak out of their garrison posts in twos and threes and rove the countryside looking for abandoned chickens and eggs-many were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Eagles in Shansi | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Publisher John Macrae Sr., longtime president of E. P. Button & Co. (books), shot himself in the upper left arm and chest while hunting 'possum near Greenwich, Va., was hurried to Fauquier County* hospital for a blood transfusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...collision at Azusa, Calif., Thomas Leo McCarey, cinema director (The Awful Truth, Ruggles of Red Gap), and Gene Fowler (born Eugene Devlan), journalist, author (The Great Mouthpiece, Timber Line, Illusion in Java), were burned by gasoline flames. Director McCarey had a fractured skull, Writer Fowler injuries to back and chest. First to recover, Fowler telephoned his agent, offered him 10% of his cuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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