Word: chins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...particularly the royal ladies'-attitude toward the Duchess is needlessly punitive. He also resents the moral indignation raised against the Duchess by that class of English ladies so well represented by Lucy Baldwin, wife of the Prime Minister who pressured him off the throne. With his chin well out, the Duke was said to have introduced his lady to their visitors as "Her Royal Highness." The tall Prime Minister and the taller Foreign Secretary acknowledged, but scarcely confirmed this title with a bow. Later Paris socialites, abuzz over this first meeting since the abdication between the Duke...
...mackinawed men from the Hills of Hanover took it on the chin Saturday, 23-13, at the hands of the sunkist college of co-ed dreamdom. And it was no freak win. The weather was clear and the track fast. All-American Captain Bob MacLeod and his mates Bill Hutchinson and Colby Howe were due to romp. Stanford, however, held them to 77 yards by rushing and only seven of Hutch's 17 passes found receivers...
...precious books, dating back as far as the tenth century, were bought by Dr. Chin from private collectors who, fleeing Japanese bombs, saved these as their most valuable possessions. Japanese restrictions preventing Chinese citizens from bringing goods out of the country made it impossible for Dr. Chin himself to supervise the books' departure, that job being left to an American associate of his in the Far Eastern Department...
Harvard's Yenching library, under the control of Dr. Chin, who has been its head since 1927, has grown from a single room in Widener Library containing only 4,000 volumes to a collection of 160,000 books covering the entire basement of Boylston. There the new additions, piled ceiling-high in the department's rare book vault, have not yet been unpacked since they arrived only two months...
Eventually, however, they will find their way into the immense catalogue of far eastern writings whose preparation Dr. Chin is now supervising. This work, the first of its kind in this country, will consist of 2,600 pages giving a classified index to the 35,000 titles in the Yenching Library. Many copies on cards will be made and sent to libraries and universities all over the country, where they will be an invaluable aid to research students of Oriental culture...