Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Columbia University. For six months, at the request of Canada's Social Science Research Council, he had scanned the face of Canada. Now, in his 90-page report (Scholarship for Canada; Canadian Social Science Research Council, Ottawa; $1), as in a shaving mirror magnifying all the prominent nose pores, Canada could take a critical look at its own phiz...
...Convair has sold, is still in the design stage, will not be ready for delivery until 1947. It will be a short-haul, 40-passenger plane in the 300-mile-an-hour class. Unusual features: specially designed engine exhaust stacks which will provide jet assistance; passenger entrance near the nose through a door with a built-in ramp. With the 240, American Airlines hopes to make a "good approach" to 3?-a-mile air service...
Scent Test. The nose is no respecter of perfume price. Tests taken among students at the University of California showed that expensive brands ran about nose-&-nose with inexpensive. Another conclusion: after eight hours, there's no difference in lasting quality between expensive and inexpensive brands...
...would be a great night for the spilled highball, the cigaret burn, and the lamentations of teetering women who had just lost a high heel from one slipper. Shrill words would be spoken before dawn. At least one famous actor, writer or politician would get punched in the nose, and automobiles would collide with an abandon almost forgotten during the stodgy years of gas rationing. The morning-after consumption of aspirin, raw egg and Worcestershire sauce would rise again in proof of man's infinite capacity for hope...
...Frederick C. Little's second son was born, everybody noticed that he was not much bigger than a mouse. The truth was. the baby looked very much like a mouse in every way. He was only about two inches high; and he had a mouse's sharp nose, a mouse's tail, a mouse's whiskers, and the pleasant shy manner of a mouse. Before he was many days old he was not only looking like a mouse but acting like one, too-wearing a gray hat and carrying a small cane. . . . The doctor was delighted...