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Word: chins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said one commissioner: "We're sticking our chin out but we're right. A champ's gotta fight." Added Chief Commissioner Col. Harvey L. Miller: "O.K., the kid runs away from the Army. But then he paid his debt to the country. He serves ten months in the Fort Leavenworth disciplinary barracks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rooky's Road Back | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...Chin-Chow (1916) holds a longer record for the London stage: 2,238 performances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Birthday Girl | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

Press Aide Charlie Ross watched with his sad hound-dog expression. Clark Clifford, preoccupied, scratched his chin. The conference ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: A Little Butter for His Bread | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

Thus began the last hour of Yoshiko's strange life. She was born, the Princess Chin Pi-hui (Radiant Jade) of the Manchu dynasty, overthrown in 1911 by China's Sun Yatsen. She had been adopted by a member of Japan's powerful Black Dragon society, renamed Yoshiko (Beautiful One), reared man-fashion in the warrior code of Nippon. As a girl she dedicated herself to the overthrow of the Chinese Republic and the restoration of her house. She became a Japanese spy, masquerading as a taxi-dancer, a Chinese soldier, even as a Korean prostitute (Chinese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Foolish Elder Brother | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...England last week on an exhibition tour, Joe Louis was having his own troubles. He fired a British sparring partner because he couldn't get him to throw mere than one punch a round. His weight was up to 225 Ibs. and a second chin was beginning to show. Joe rode to the House of Commons in a borrowed Rolls-Royce, listened to about 30 minutes of debate ("I got there in the middle and I didn't quite understand it. ... I couldn't hear it too plain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Good Old Gus | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

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