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Word: chested (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...bedlam of chest-pounding patriotism, Accuser Velasco and his colleagues began backtracking Diez's trail. It began, they said, in the Gran Hotel Paris, where police seized documents belonging to the ring's La Paz agents. There they found a check for $7,500 in Diez's favor, a slip of paper reading: "Dear Ed: Here goes the first payment; others follow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Refugee Racket | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

...roars fail to achieve their intended effect. A kitchen worker ran amok through the Middle House one morning, brandishing a cleaver. When the man paid no heed to the Doc's bellowing, Dr. Hume took off his coat, knocked the fellow down, sat on his chest and calmly told his pupils to call the police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Canterbury Tale | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

...Harrisburg, a woman was found who for 30 years wore Christmas seals on her chest to prevent tuberculosis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 30, 1940 | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

...boiled shirt swelling and falling over his Cyclopean chest, Jim Londos (real name: Christopher Theophilus), sometime airplane-spinning wrestling champ, made a debut at Philadelphia's swank Academy of Music with a lecture on wrestling as practiced by the ancients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 23, 1940 | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

...Army's Surgeon General James Carre Magee assured them that it was not the same sort of flu. Despite the wildfire contagion, symptoms everywhere were mild. Most of the victims had only slight fever, sniffles, headache, sore limbs, backache, a tight feeling in the chest. Although Los Angeles had about 50,000 cases, only 70 deaths had been reported at week's end. mostly among people who were finished off by pneumonia. But in many communities, daily life was completely disrupted. Local disruptions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Flu Epidemic | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

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