Word: nose
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...means let the lady poke my nose, and I will poke hers-if it will further the development of aviation...
However, no amount of nose poking will disprove the plain fact, set forth in my original letter to you, that Coolidge ought to fly with Lindbergh. I repeat also that Roosevelt would have flown with Lindy like a shot, the day Lindbergh got home from Paris...
...paste that on a wooden Indian's nose and poke...
Changing the Species.-Some day eyes, complexions, stature, nose lengths may be changed by radiation. Professor Hermann Joseph Muller, famed biologist of the University of Texas, has played the X-ray on fruit flies making them produce strange, outlandish offspring. The pedigreed fruit flies (whose hereditary characteristics had been known for generations) suddenly brought forth anomalies with curiously colored eyes, unreasonable wings, radically bobbed hair antennae. New species came into existence, the special marks of the X-ray were transmitted down the generations. Biologist Muller tried the effect of other agents on the germ plasm. Treatment with lead, arsenic, poisons...
...treet, pursued by a black bulldog. At the corner was a synagog; knowing well that the bulldog would never dare to follow hem inside, the five screeching urchins scampered toward its door and jostled .hrough. When the bulldog reached the door, he pushed it open with his flat snub nose and dashed inside. Barking furiously and growling in the solemn gloom, he cornered the five boys and bit each on one or both legs. After that, the bulldog, still snarling, was taken to the Board of Health; the five boys were dragged whimpering out of the synagog...