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Word: chins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Secretary Swanson examined the Cadmus work for himself. Scratching his chin and tilting his head he remarked: "Right artistic but not true to the Navy." Thereupon Assistant Secretary of the Navy Henry Latrobe Roosevelt whisked The Fleet's In away to his Q Street home. "It's out of sight," said he, "and will continue to be out of sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Removals | 4/30/1934 | See Source »

...grimy little cottages of Clydebank, Scotland there was bunting last week. Policemen on the corners smiled right round the chin straps of their helmets. Down the cobbled street came the sharp squeal of bagpipes. Four hundred workmen, their tool bags slung over their shoulders, tramped behind the pipers and gaily sang "The Cunarder's restarting!" to the tune of "The Campbells are Coming." Through the gates of the John Brown Shipyard they went, and other workmen, busy on the 8,000-ton motorship for the New Zealand trade and several other ships, cheered them as they passed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Happy Clydebank | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

...good look at the cargo already aboard : cases of rifles, cart ridges, hand grenades, several rolls of barbed wire and a camp forge. After two weeks in port, the Optimist was joined by a party of ten German Nazis and a small dark man with a little chin beard whom they called alternately Schaefer and "der kleine Schwartze." On March 27 the Optimist cleared for the Canary Islands off the west coast of Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Again Agadir? | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

During a wrestling match in Alexandria. La.. Combatant Johnny Plummer became enraged at a ruling by referee Jack Dempsey, hit him. Referee Dempsey knocked out Combatant Plummer with three quick uppercuts to the chin. Up from a ringside seat scrambled 95-lb. Mrs. Johnny Plummer. She screech-scratched Referee Dempsey into a corner, tore his shirt, pulled his hair, drove him out of the ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 16, 1934 | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

...ugly, very ugly, with bowed shoulders, rather bandy-legged and with an excessive chin. But, gentlemen, he was made by God and when he begins with the cape and when he unfolds his marvelous muleta he reminds us of his divine origin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Metador | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

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