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Word: chins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never seen such a large frog in my life. Every minute or so he would raise his front leg to his mouth as if wiping his chin. Opening his mouth I pulled out a full grown Sandpiper nearly all swallowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 5, 1931 | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

...Harvey Dow Gibson was born in North Conway. N. H. Now he lives on a great estate at Locust Valley. He rides after hounds with the Meadowbrook and wears on his chin the scar of a fall. Every morning his sleek cruiser Mystery awaits him in his own yacht basin to take him to Manhattan. Not always has he sped to work on a yacht. First, without much delight, he swept out the offices of American Express Co. in Boston. He turned out to be quite a broom. In a few years he had swept himself into place as financial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: New York Consortium | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

Although neither one is a champion, or likely to be one soon, 15,000 people came to the third fight last week. Petrolle, as usual, rushed in with chin and shoulders low, peering up at McLarnin from beneath eyebrows that look bushy because they are raised by scars. He won the first round, held McLarnin almost even in the next three, won the fifth. But McLarnin had thought up a new way of dealing with Petrolle. Standing up straight, like the barroom pictures of oldtime fighters, he let Petrolle lead and kept him off balance by stepping in close instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: McLarnin v. Petrolle | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

...TIME, a whisker is a whisker whether it grows out of chin, ear, nostril, facial mole or upper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 24, 1931 | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

...slammed and smashed at Sharkey, trying to hit his face more than his body. He swung in under Sharkey's high guard with what Westbrook Pegler colorfully called "the simian roll of a vaudeville baboon on roller skates." In the seventh round, a right caught Sharkey on the chin. He went back against the ropes, the crowd roaring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big v. Little | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

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