Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...daughter of one of the leading tribesmen, a girl of 16 or 17, undertook with great zest the task of instructing me in the vernacular. We would sit side by side for hours and a hundred times she would touch my eye, nose and mouth and each time I would have to repeat the native word...
...Mellon, Kellogg, Jardine and Sargent. After handshakes and animal pat-tings, the Coolidges and their companions got into several limousines and swept rapidly through the Capital. Rob Roy, veteran collie, disturbed the ride with bounds, plunges, whines; shedding his white hair on formal apparel, then, he pressed his cold nose against the glass, to get a first glimpse of the White House. Arriving, he bolted down the corridor, into the elevator; jumped on the seat, and gazed upward, eager to rise. Mrs. Coolidge, good housewife, was enthusiastic over the improvements; insisted on touring the house before permitting the President...
...theory held by doctors is that infectious diseases, caught usually in the springtime, affect the pituitary gland. This is an endocrine gland the size of a big pea, located underneath the cerebrum and on about a line with the bridge of the nose. Formerly medicos supposed that it secreted the mucus of the nose. (In Latin pituita means phlegm.) Actually it controls the growth of the bones of body?those of the arms and legs. When it is pathologically oversize, it makes giants of the diseased persons; when undersize it dwarfs them. Irritated temporarily by springtime disease, it, in good...
August Frey mopped his bloody nose with a cotton handkerchief, remarked sadly to bystanders: "Well, what do you think of that...
Polo Facts. Polo mallets are croquet mallets, extremely stretched. The long handles are of flexible bamboo and the head of wood. It is the erroneous impression of many people, even after witnessing a game, that the ball (wood, about indoor baseball size) is hit with the nose of the mallet. This would be practically impossible; the nose of a polo mallet is not two inches in diameter. The ball is hit with the side of the mallet, preferably just where the handle joins. When it is hit between the goal posts at the end of the field (flat turf...