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Word: chins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...merciful mask is held in place by straps fitting around the head, has two hollow tubes starting at each side of the nosepiece and curving clown to the chin, where they join a larger tube which runs to an oxygen bag connected with an oxygen tank. The mask permits a passenger to eat, talk and smoke while he inhales the soothing oxygen. The whole business, explained Dr. Boothby, is not as uncomfortable as it looks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Merciful Mask | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

Hitler-"Never. You speak of your passionate love for peace. . . . Then suddenly you stiffen, you tighten your fists, you stick out your chin and you speak of Italian force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: More Munich? | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...fattest supporting role in Kentucky is naturally that of a hot-tempered, horse-breeding old Kentucky squire. The picture's greatest virtue is that Walter Brennan plays him, chin whiskers and all, as though Peter Goodwin were a real human being, not a stock character. Typical sequence: Peter Goodwin selecting, from a collection of mediocre two-year-olds, the one that has "the look of eagles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 2, 1939 | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

...Nett said that very little was known about Dodatmors--pronounced do-dat-more, with the last syllable strongly accented. In appearance they have large, somewhat square heads to make room for their huge brains. They also have high, slanting foreheads, under which a receding chin (which extends to their tall) begins almost immediately. When questioned as to why the fish appeared so calm and showed no sign of nervousness, supposed to be one of their chief characteristics, the doctor pointed out that their movements to and fro are of such rapidity that they could not be seen. He reluctantly admitted...

Author: By Harry S. Hayward jr., | Title: Unique Trio of Big Brained Fish With Phi Beta Kappa Mentalities flabbergast All Harvard With Their Antics | 12/15/1938 | See Source »

...people, his tremendous dramatic punch, his dialogue, bracing as ozone. In every Odets play, regardless of its theme or its worth, at least once or twice during the evening every spectator feels that a fire hose has been turned on his body, that a fist has connected with his chin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: White Hope | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

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