Word: chins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...truck a tense-faced man of 30 pulled a football helmet on his head, strapped it firmly under his chin. Unbuttoning his topcoat he fingered a steel-ribbed corset beneath his bathing suit, adjusted the pads on his shoulders, chest and knees. "Here's the place," said the driver, stopping the truck close to the guardrail on the span about two thirds the distance to Yerba Buena Island. "We're three minutes late." In an auto on the ramp over their heads, a cameraman for the San Francisco Examiner (morning Hearst-paper) was checking his shutter adjustment, squinting...
Harvard will be one of the nine colleges which will compete in the Eastern Intercollegiate Chin Golf Championship Tournament to be held tomorrow evening at 6:15 in studio number 1 of WOR at New York. John L. Allen '39 will wear the colors of the Crimson in an attempt to win a three-foot-high silver...
...breeches that had once been spotless white, shouldered through a clutter of clowns, girls, circus hands and hangers-on, scurried up a spiral staircase to his dressing-room. He was streaked and spattered with muck from head to foot. Sweat trickled down his nose and cheeks, dripped from his chin. As he collapsed into a chair while an attendant pulled off the dusty boots, Clyde Beatty, the most celebrated trainer of lions and tigers in the world and part owner of the newest and most extraordinary U. S. circus, honestly sighed: "It's good to sit down...
...pituitary gland. This endocrine body, situated under the brain, controls growth. Usually when it goes awry it affects the individual either at puberty or after he reaches maturity. Adolescent pituitary trouble makes the victim exceedingly tall and lanky. Later it makes the hands, feet and head (especially the chin) vast and ponderous. Robert Wadlow's condition started at birth. Hence his 8 ft. 6 in. and his 435 Ib. are in fairly good proportion...
...Paducah, Ky., the Ohio flood waters rose so high in front of the Public Library that Andrew Carnegie's statue was submerged to the chin...