Word: chins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hundred rare Chinese books, salvaged from the war torn areas of central and eastern China are now resting safely in a fireproof room in the cellar of Boylston Library, after a year and a half of work in China by Dr. A. Kaiming Chin, head librarian of the Harvard Yenching Institute...
When 13-year-old Clara Howard of Washington. D. C. emptied a lapful of peanut shells into an open fire, the flames leaped up, licked her neck and sides. After weeks of painful healing she was left a hopeless cripple, with her chin grown to her chest, her arms to her sides. Prof. Robert Emmet Moran of Georgetown University saw the little Negro girl at Emergency Hospital last year, determined to try a new experiment in plastic surgery: a living graft from another person of the same blood group (TIME, Dec. 13). Clara's distant cousin, John Melvin Bonner...
...Crimson J.V.'s boast one triumph, while their opponents last week took it on the chin from Navy, 250. Last year the Bengalis and Harvardisus fought to clash was the fact that Princeton used almost exclusively Harvard Varsity plays, which they had learned through scouts in order to run against their own top notchers...
Surgeons all over the U. S. agree that 66-year-old Dr. William Wayne Babcock of Philadelphia's Temple University can take it on the chin. Four years ago he violated medical taboo, trusted no one more than himself to operate on his wife. When his young son died, with steady hand Professor Babcock performed the autopsy. Last week Dental Survey described a striking operation which Dr. Babcock originated for pushing forward a receding lower jaw, giving a patient a firmer looking profile than he was born with...
...last week came the industrial accident which a million U. S. taxpayers have feared was inevitable among WPA's hordes of shovel men: while leaning at a comfortable incline with his legs crossed and both hands grasping the shovel's handle to make a pillow for his chin, Ellis Colvin lost his balance, fell heavily, fractured his wrist. Shovel Man Colvin promptly applied for Government compensation...