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Word: chins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture him. You show him flabby as he was in his later years. In '96 there wasn't an ounce, from the soles of his feet to the top of his head, that didn't belong to a physically perfect man. He had no double chin-though, if my memory serves me right, he did have the black bow tie. From a window of the Penny Press, of Minneapolis-dead these many years- I mean the Penny Press-I read, through a megaphone, his famous speech as it came over the telegraph from the convention hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 26, 1931 | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

...sensation of the decade). She had a wizened little father by the name of Mr. Pipp, who became Artist Gibson's most successful character. She had a number of suitors who were either too fat or too thin, wore reefers with enormous pearl buttons, and killed chin-bearded farmers' chickens by driving their Stevens-Duryeas recklessly on country roads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Welfenschatz | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

...Jersey City, N. J., James ("Valley") Smith, 30, was shot several times. One bullet struck his chin, entered his mouth, knocked out a tooth. When surgeons hunted the bullet, he explained: "I spit it out." Wire At Grand Rapids, Mich., Charles Garnett, Mike Eikelbery, and Everett Glazier were arrested for stealing 150 mi. of copper wire which they dismantled while the lines were charged with 144,000 volts. Near Middletown, N. Y. Fred Woods saw a deer drop dead while crossing a field, followed it, dropped dead by its side. Both had touched a broken high tension wire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dec. 1, 1930 | 12/1/1930 | See Source »

...late infancy and in childhood the face as a whole grows at its highest rate of speed." It grows more from lips to ears than from forehead to chin or cheek to cheek. In girls the face deepens from lips to ears until the ninth year. Then until the 15th year it spreads.-Dr. Milo Hellman, Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Adolescence | 10/27/1930 | See Source »

...machine, tries to work it, throws good money after bad. In increasing frenzy he dissipates all his ill-gotten gains on the infernal machine. Hero, after misadventures, tracks him down. From this point the plot thickens, twists, jumps like a rubber band. Its final fillip knocks Villain on the chin, Hero and Heroine into each other's arms. In a few minutes you have seen, with many a thrill, many a laugh, nary a tear, Life's panorama sweep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gross Satire | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

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