Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brides-in-the-Bath murder case posed the question: Can a man drown his wife without external signs of violence? Sir Bernard upended a nurse in a tub and the water struck her nose with such force that she became unconscious. He revived the nurse and the husband was hanged. That was one of 110 murderers Sir Bernard helped convict...
...applied to several scenes with absolute poetic Tightness: by retarding to slow motion Beauty's terror-struck sprint through the Beast's castle, Cocteau conveys every decibel of the shriek she cannot release. There is also plenty of surreal wit: the Beast's eyes, ears, nose and fingernails fume when the fires of lust blaze up in him; and Beauty's tears turn to diamonds on her cheeks...
...secret of the body's resistance to heat is its own cooling system (perspiration). Moisture evaporating from the skin surrounds exposed parts of the body with an envelope of cooler air. With the hotbox at 236°, for instance, the air ¾ in. from the nose is 226°. The skin of the nose itself is at a safe 119.5°. Air drawn into the nostrils is cooled down so much that it does not damage the lungs. The general temperature of the body rises only a couple of degrees...
...British experimenting will go on. More snuffling volunteers are being invited to spend ten-day "holidays" under observation in Harvard's comfortable hospital cottages. Who minds a red nose, when there is free room & board and three-shillings-a-day spending money...
Stowe has little to offer the novice, One trail, a converted toll road to the peak, is gentle and smooth, while two other trails, blazed this year especially for novices, still have tough spots. Mansfield is a steep mountain, home of the Nose Dive, which was once an Olympic downhill run but is new one of the most popular export trails in the East, and, as such, draws skiers with considerable experience...