Word: nosed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speeding toward him on the eastern outskirts of Honolulu. He flagged it. It whizzed by. He chased it in his police car two miles, five miles, ten miles, firing random shots at the tires. Finally in a burst of speed he edged in front of it, forced it to nose into an embankment. Opening its door he found a grey-haired, middle-aged woman at the wheel, a trim, nice-looking young man beside her. In the back seat sat another young man and, beside him, a mummy-like thing roped up in a sheet. Officer Harbottle ripped open...
...Morse Jr., Dr. Kurt Thomas, Dr. G. H. Wright, Dr. V. H. Kazanjian, Dr. H. A. Kent '16, Dr. F. R. Blumenthal, Dr. B. E. Hamilton, Dr. P. R. Howe, and Miss R. L. White. Among the subjects to be covered are bacteriology; histo-pathology; eye, ear, nose, and throat infections; bone diseases; neuralgia, general diseases and diet. The Dental School Committee consists of Dr. Thomas, Dr. Davenport, and Dean Miner, ex-officio...
Sleighs jingled merrily through Finland's pine forests, snowplows roared up and down the streets of Helsinki (Helsingfors). In a nationwide, nose-nipping blizzard last week hardy Finns decided by ballot between continuance of Prohibition and inauguration of State Liquor Control...
...over his bruised face and started to get back into his car. His chauffeur, volubly expostulating in Japanese, tried to save the situation. But into the tonneau after Consul Chamberlain piled the Japanese sentries, pulled off his fur hat and savagely beat his face, gashing the skin of his nose and forehead until bone showed white through the red, dripping wounds. When the sentries had done with Consul Chamberlain they departed grinning. Friends of Consul Chamberlain were relieved to learn that after his face had been disinfected and bandaged he was able to catch the next train from Mukden...
...have concluded its five years' schedule of investigation. So far the Research has produced chiefly negations: the common cold is not caused by that, that or the other. The one positive result is the certainty that colds are caused by a filtrable virus transmitted from person to person through nose & throat. Ground, cleared of weedy hypotheses and surmises, may give results this year...