Word: chins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good fight but not quite as exciting as the crowd had hoped. McLarnin, with neither prestige nor a title to gain by winning, had not fought for more than a year. Planning to retire after a few more bouts, he boxed skillfully but without enthusiasm. Ross, protecting his chin with his right shoulder, pecked...
McLarnin's face with his right hand. In the fifth round the crowed booed McLarnin for hitting low. In the ninth McLarnin caught Ross off balance with a right to the chin and knocked him down. Just before the bell, Ross floored McLarnin with a left to the jaw. After the 15th, at the end of a close, clever, almost even fight, McLarnin trotted to his corner, prepared to execute the handspring with which he customarily celebrates a victory. Referee Eddie Forbes walked across the ring to the opposite corner, raised Ross's hand. First lightweight champion...
Ramapithecus had a V-shaped upper jaw more similar to human form than to the U-shaped jaws of modern gorillas, orangs, chimpanzees. Sugrivapithecus had a well-developed chin like that of primitive man. Both had close-set, almost human teeth, lacking the formidable canine tusks of the great apes of today. The third genus was more like extinct apes previously discovered...
...most fortunate old gentleman is tall, chin-whiskered Laurence Vincent ("Larry") Benet. Son of a brigadier general with the Union Army in the Civil War, he was born at West Point 71 years ago and schooled at Washington's famed old Emerson Institute and at Yale. In 1885 he went to Paris as a bright young engineer with La Societé Hotchkiss & Cie and has lived there ever since. His gracious wife Margaret was one of the Cox sisters of old Georgetown; Larry Benet married her after he returned as an ensign from the Spanish-American War. Best known...
Meanwhile for three days Spain was without a Government. Rows with the radicals in the Cortes, whose rioting brothers were carefully omitted from the amnesty bill, forced the resignation of staunch Rightish Premier Alejandro Lerroux and his cabinet. Tugging at his unruly hair, scratching at his stubbly chin, President Alcala Zamora attempted to find a Premier. The choice of either reactionary Catholic Leader Gil Robles or shrewd, radical Manuel Azana might easily start a civil war. Finally he picked a political dummy for Alejandro Lerroux named Ricardo Samper Ibanez, an owlish, spectacled lawyer from Valencia and Lerroux's onetime...