Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exactly handsome; he was more like a heavy-duty freight train. A wise horse, he exerted himself no more than necessary. He never bothered to break a record unless it took record time to win; he was content to win his races by a neck, or a nose. But even a great gelding like Armed, smart in pacing himself, can run down. Five months ago, after winning eleven races and $288,725 in one season, he was pulled off the track and given a rest...
...Abraham Lincoln sits at home as his young sons clamber over him; they "patted his cheeks, pulled his nose and poked their fingers in his eyes." The sons were roughnecks: "Willie and Tad . . . rifled the drawers and riddled boxes, battered the points of my gold pens against the stairs, turned over the inkstands on "the papers. ... I wanted to wring the necks of these brats and pitch them out of the windows...
...Yale and Harvard, now locked in a tight battle for second place. The Chasemen's 8 to 1 walkaway on West Point's Smith Rink Saturday all but equaled Yale's earlier win on the same ice, while the men in blue invaded the Boston Arena February 1 to nose out Boston University 6 to 5 and match the Crimson's December victory over the Terriers on the same rink by the same margin. Yale's high scoring forwards--Artie Moher, Gordy Ritz, and Fred Pearson--are pushing on 30 points apiece. Wait Allen and Jack Calhoun are strong...
...recitation therefore be barred from public schools? Dr. Vivian Trow Thayer, Leader of the New York Society for Ethical Culture, thinks the answer is yes. Last week in Manhattan he declared: "The use of the Lord's Prayer in the public schools is but a camel's nose for a larger program. . . . Certain religious denominations now look to the public schools as a means for insuring their survival...
Presently the classroom began to fill. Eight legs of dark gray-flannel, one tweed-skirt, and five moving tongues completed Vag's row. He leaned back and looked around the room, his eyes following waving hands, his ears following friendly greetings, and his nose following the feminine scents wafting up and down the aisle...