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Word: chins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sinanthropus pekinensis (Peking man), of receding, apelike chin and human brain case and teeth, who is approximately the same age as Pithecanthropus. His skull was discovered near Peking in 1929 by Chinese Anthropologist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Old Men | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

What aroused Columnist Pegler was a rough sketch used for publicity by the San Francisco citizens' committee, which is now out raising $15,000 for materials. "It is," said Old Peg, "a figure with . . . a pointed beard, inclosed in an aviator's helmet and having, beneath the chin, a sort of bib or drool cloth. The hands are upraised in the standard posture of the guest of honor at a stickup and the figure then declines, round, rigid as a concrete pipe and innocent of fold or human line, to the waist, where it disappears into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: San .Francisco's Saint | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

...self-pity, frank pictures indicating need of makeover (see cut). Last week she went to Manhattan to receive her prize: a four-to-six-week treatment with a plastic surgeon and Bonwit Teller's beauty salon to make the least of her nose, the most of her hair, chin, body. Miss Foutz: "My greatgrandfather went west in 1847 to change the map. I've come east in 1938 to change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 29, 1938 | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

...that a Federal Grand Jury in Manhattan indicted 18 persons for spying on the U. S. military defense machine, and pitted the U. S. Department of Justice against the German Government, their employer (TIME, June 27), a lean, sparse-haired man with steel-drill eyes and a steel-trap chin flung himself on a Manhattan hotel bed, exhausted. He was Leon G. Turrou, G-Man. He had been working on the spy case 16½ hours a day for 14 weeks. He had not seen his family for four months. His doctor had told him he must rest, long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Snoop, Look & Listen | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

Until Director H. Bruce Humberstone discovered her and took her to Producer Zanuck for a screen test, green-eyed, red-haired Arleen Whelan was a Hollywood manicurist. A lithe, natural lass with Celtic charm and an unaccountable suggestion of a double chin, she was soon rumored to be David Selznick's choice for Scarlett O'Hara. But Zanuck had already signed her. In Kidnapped her voice lacks depth, except when she is singing a Scottish ballad with Maxine Sullivan flavor. She acts as if she were not quite at home in Scotland or Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 6, 1938 | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

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