Word: nosed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chances were that no such action would be necessary. Nose-counters last week found the Senate strongly in favor of repealing the publicity clause. That the Senate would be slow to act was of small consequence, the Treasury having already announced that it could not possibly have the "pink slip" information ready for public inspection before summer...
...Conservative Opposition never really got going, but its members stammered and rambled until Liberal "Mitch" accused them of "vying with each other for the leadership of the Conservative Party." "Hypocrites!" shouted a Liberal. "Liar!" responded a Conservative, and nose-punching almost ensued...
...smelling area of the nose grows most before the child is six months old. In early childhood the middle part of the nose grows most. In later childhood the lower part of the nose unfolds and grows until about adolescence. The faces of most snub-nosed grown-ups simply froze prematurely. Many of them, when children, just lacked proper food to grow...
When the baby graduates to Cleveland's Babies' & Children's Hospital, while he goes to kindergarten, to grammar school, to high school, Professor Todd intends to take frequent notes on all his measurable parts including shape and set of nose, eyes and ears. Professor Todd and assistants have been doing this to Cleveland children for the past six years...
...Francis Biddle of the National Labor Relations Board, one of that long series of fledgling Harvard Law graduates who have been honored by one-year appointments as the great jurist's secretary, reported that, catching Professor Frankfurter tiptoeing by his bed, Mr. Justice Holmes had merrily thumbed his nose...