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...obtaining a dog-walker, a perfume smeller, or even a baby-sitter, the hope of Boston employers is the Radcliffe Employment Bureau. In the past three years, the Bureau, headed by Mrs. Mary Shaw, has been filling such requests from her file-jammed office on the second floor of Fay House, in the Radcliffe Quad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Employment Office Seeks Perfume Smellers and Dog Walkers | 4/10/1953 | See Source »

...perfume smeller" was requested by a manufacturer who wanted a girl to dispense perfume samples and describe the customers' reactions. For every vial of perfume given away, the girl received twenty-five cents. She was then asked to describe her preference among the varieties she had distributed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Employment Office Seeks Perfume Smellers and Dog Walkers | 4/10/1953 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hot Noses | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...Smeller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Boy | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

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