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Word: chins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that "gang of forty thieves." Carefully he explained that those opinions had grown in him only after he came to Brewster, last March. He had cozied up to the union. Said he: "I got in bed with Tom De Lorenzo, with the cover tucked right up to my chin. I guess we were sort of bundling together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: A Prayer for Henry | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

Other points from Dr. Ivy's paper: > In deep wounds of the face, the first consideration is to make sure that there is a good airway for breathing-bandage should press the chin, the tongue should be kept out of the way (if a patient cannot control his tongue, it can be fastened to the clothing by a single stitch through it). Lives may be saved if men wounded in the lower jaw are kept either upright or lying face downward. Recumbent they may choke to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Wounded Face | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

...skinny hair. His pince-nez rimless glasses give his somber blue eyes the precise squint of the clerk of a small-town council who secretly believes he will some day be mayor. He shaves twice daily yet never seems clean-shaven. His jowls flab down to a murderous little chin; the mustache is a respectful miniature of Hitler's. When Hitler's mouth is not in use, it says bah; Himmler's says all right, you asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Man in the Way | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

...histrionic legs are here shrouded in fancy skirts may sadden her admirers. But she makes up for that in one high-stepping number which has something of the shock value that might result from watching grandma, in the bloom of her youth, chuck an old rip under the chin with the toe-point of her slipper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 11, 1943 | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

...style was equally unorthodox. Like his friendly enemy in a lifelong battle of wits, Bernard Shaw, Chesterton delighted in weaving his strictures against the unorthodox in a web of paradoxical wit. To freethinkers he said: "You are armed to the teeth and buttoned up to the chin with the great agnostic Orthodoxy, perhaps the most placid and perfect of all the orthodoxies of men. . . . I approach you with the reverence and the courage due to a bench of bishops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Orthodoxologist | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

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