Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fouling Practice. But for all his dignity, Tom Dewey also had his sleeves rolled up. He had given Stassen a haughty punch in the nose for the needling which the Stassen forces had been giving him. He had authorized an aide to state: "The Governor never criticizes other members of his party publicly. He does not follow the practice of those who foul their own nests...
Injured Party. In Fargo, N. Dak., Chet Noice asked North Dakota Agricultural College for damages, explained that he had broken his right hand punching an unruly student in the nose...
...sense least understood (not counting humor) is the sense of smell. Its subtleties baffle scientists and enrich perfume compounders. Last week Yale's Drs. Lloyd H Beck and Walter R. Miles, after long and thoughtful scratching of their scientific noses, presented the National Academy of Sciences with a brand-new theory. The nose, they said, is not, as commonly believed, a laboratory which identifies odors by chemical analysis. More likely, its smeller is an instrument or measuring infra-red (heat) rays absorbed by odorous vapors...
...been known that many gases and vapors transparent to visible light absorb certain wavelengths of infra-red This fact is used industrially in identifying gases; chemists shoot infra-red rays through a vapor and note what wavelengths are absorbed, and how strongly. Why, reasoned Beck & Miles, should the numan nose not do the same...
...does the nose do the smelling? The "smell receptors," patches of specialized cells in the upper nose, lie across air passages from tissues which are normally cooler than they are. Therefore the cells radiate heat waves across the air stream. Beck & Miles theorized that when pure air is passing through the nostrils, the cells give no signal; they are getting rid of their heat at the standard rate. But when an odorous vapor is present in the air stream it absorbs certain wavelengths of the heat which the cells are radiating. The cells can feel the change and the stimulus...