Word: chests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...private insurance company is presently willing to take the risk of covering residents in potential flood areas, since these companies do not have the resources to cover short-term losses in return for possible longterm financial gains. Private agencies likewise are unable to provide adequate relief. Red Cross, Community Chest, and similar groups assist victims to meet the immediate impact of floods, but they can do little toward alleviating widespread economic loss...
...conversationally, his low voice can barely he heard over the humming of the air-conditioning units in the vast First National Bank building. Yet he is one of Chicago's most popular speakers. Besides The Toastmaster's Handbook, he has written The Public Speaker's Treasure Chest, The Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms, The Speaker's Treasury of Stories for All Occasions, and 1001 Ways to Improve Your Conversation and Speeches.* Some Prochnow advice: "Do not overemphasize to the listener or reader that the story you are about to relate is an extraordinarily...
...generates as it contracts and expands. The first three columns show impulses picked up from pairs of electrodes at the extremities (Lead I, wrist to wrist; Lead II, right arm to left leg; Lead III, left arm to left leg); the second three columns from single electrodes over the chest...
Uncle Robbie settled under the diving speck that dropped toward his hands. But the big sphere whipped through his hands and burst in a fine mess against his chest. He dropped, covered with pulp and grapefruit juice. "Jesus!" he moaned, sitting on the sand, his eyes squeezed shut...
...killed! I'm blind! It's broke open my chest! I'm covered with blood! somebody help me!" The only help he got was a horse laugh. Only Casey could have pulled the stunt and gotten away with...