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Word: chins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...notable for sinewy, flexible composition and color, a sort of high-spirited withdrawal from both cynicism and enthusiasm. Some of the small figures are minutely painted but faces seem to bore him; they are indicated by a few haphazard strokes, or simply by highlights on forehead and chin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: For Pleasure | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

That he will stick his chin out and let the ANPA, in for labor troubles, those close to Jim Stahlman deny. Routine ANPA work continues under the supervision of well-seasoned Lincoln B. Palmer who has been ANPA's paid manager at New York headquarters for 34 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: ANPA | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

Seventy-two years ago last week a tall, grave man with chin whiskers entered Ford's Theatre in Washington to see a performance of Our American Cousin. Eleven hours later he was dead. Last week on the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's assassination famed Collector Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach exhibited in his cluttered Philadelphia office a collection of Lincolniana which he values at more than $1,000,000. An important item was the notes of Dr. Charles S. Taft, the army surgeon who attended Lincoln's last hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Lincoln to White House | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

Outshaving five other contenders, John L. Allen '39, CRIMSON editor, finished second in the first Eastern Intercollegiate chin golf championship, held in New York during vacation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Entry Runnerup in Intercollege Shaving Meet | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...best, least fatiguing posture and movement those unit masses of flesh and bone, she reasons, should counter-balance so that the body's centre of gravity lies in the sacrum (base of the spine). When the human animal stands properly erect, an imaginary line should cut the nose, chin, breastbone and crotch. Another imaginary line should drop from the mastoid, in front of the shoulder joint, through the elbow and little finger (palm turned to the rear), side of knee and ankle. This is achieved by standing with feet together, shoulders held back, abdomen tucked in, buttocks clenched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Posture Lady | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

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