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Word: chins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handed to sleek, sensitive Chinese War Minister Ho Ying-chin, who was assigned in 1933 to defend North China and promised "We shall also reconquer Jehol and Manchuria!" the chief Japanese demands were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA-JAPAN: Silver, Slaverings & Solutions | 6/17/1935 | See Source »

...machine in use at the present time was built by Carl Zeiss in Germany on Dr. Redway's design. A special camera that takes a 4 1/2s6cm. Alga color plate stands on a vertical arm. It is franked by two light sources and in front of it is a chin rest for the subject. The lens is an F: 4.5. The two main modifications that have been made from the original plans are the substitution of incandescent light for are light and the increase in the magnification of the image from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Anthropology Department Photographs Eyes in Color---Will Snap You or Your Girl on Demand | 4/23/1935 | See Source »

...Recovery by clearing the slums and rebuilding them with modern apartment houses. . . . That hits you taxpayers right on the proboscis. . . . Secretary Ickes has the very good excuse that private lenders will not lend, and therefore private builders will not build. . . . We all have had to take it on the chin and now when those of us who met our weekly payrolls and survived are getting ready to take on responsibilities again we are told we are shirkers. We are not. We want our opportunity-we demand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Capitalism's Day | 4/15/1935 | See Source »

...Joseph Stalin's clear directives, Bolshevik henchmen expect as part of the system to be publicly blamed by the Dictator for his occasional mistakes, then zealously follow his "new directives." Last week in the tall-towered Kremlin the 1935 spring directives for collective farms were taken on the chin by Comrade Yakov Yakovlev, the Party's Director of Agriculture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Boon of Housekeeping | 3/25/1935 | See Source »

...blowing himself up more and more with each respiration. Within two-and-a-half hours of his admission [to the hospital], his appearance had changed entirely. From a moderately sized individual he had become an enormous, puffing, grunting balloon. His face became rounded; his neck so enlarged that his chin and chest were level; his arms, hands and even his fingertips were distended with air, and were tympanitic on percussion. His abdomen, legs and particularly his scrotum were greatly enlarged. The scrotum was about the size of a football and was tense and tympanitic. The patient's condition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Balloon Body | 3/25/1935 | See Source »

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