Word: scent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have realized the dangers implicit in the law, teachers in schools and colleges are mobilizing a belated but sturdy and almost unanimous resistance. And everywhere they have won the support of the students in their institutions and the more sophisticated groups in their communities. The middle class begins to scent trouble...
Political bird dogs quivered at the scent of a Hoover-Landon deal week before last when John Hamilton, Republican National Committee general counsel, and the following Hoover associates trod on each other's heels at the Governor's mansion: one-time Vice President Charles Curtis; Mark L. Requa, California National Committeeman; Henry J. Allen, Kansas' onetime Governor and U. S. Senator; William M. Jardine, Coolidge Secretary of Agriculture and Hoover Minister to Egypt...
...Elsberg tried having the subject hold his breath while whiffs of air saturated with coffee or lemon oil from a stoppered flask were pumped up the nostrils, directly against the ends of the olfactory nerves. He found that in normal persons a fairly constant and easily measurable quantity of scent-laden air was necessary to produce an impression. For coffee it was eight to nine cubic centimetres, for lemon oil six to eight. These quantities he labeled "MIO"-minimum identified odor...
...whatever size, the MIO was definitely higher than normal. Olfactory fatigue (individual increase of MIO after prolonged whiffing) was also longer than normal. Extent to which the MIO and fatigue were abnormal furnished a rough clue to the size and depth of the tumor. Finally, unequal distribution of scent power and endurance between the two nostrils showed that the tumor was located wholly or mostly in one hemisphere of the brain...
...this point last week Manager George Tyson stepped in. With the rich scent of publicity in his nostrils, he summoned the principals, lawyers, photographers, newshawks. A jury of six prominent Pittsburgh esthetes was drummed up and Manager Tyson began broadcasting statements from all concerned...