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Word: smelling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week's news that U. S. District Judge Joseph William Woodrough at Omaha had placed a large and. to Nebraska, alien obstacle in the path of U. S. dry agents by his ruling that they cannot legally search a domicile without warrant even though they see, hear and smell material evidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Warrants Required | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...once arose a judicial question: What was the value of the "smell" testimony of a Senator who knows nothing about liquor from the standpoint of personal imbibation? Does experience as a chemist qualify him as an expert on alcoholic odors? It was pointed out on the Senate floor that gold paint smells like bananas but it is not bananas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Silver Flasks | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...walked into the lobby of a small, sooty-red downtown office building, No. 13 Astor Place, and told the elevator boy that he wanted to get off at the tenth floor. Smiling, happy he went down a long, dim hall, entered a little office filled with the stinging smell of turpentine which painters had finished swabbing only the night before. He noticed and was pleased with a vase of roses?"from the Executive Staff"?on a shiny new desk. He sat down at the desk. Officials swarmed in to pump his hand, felicitate him, lead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mail Order President | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...Taste and Smell". Professor Boring. Emerson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 10/17/1929 | See Source »

...million, 500 thousand pounds of tomatoes, each of which has of itself only a trifling odor, can in passing through the streets in one day fill a city with appetizing perfume. Chicago, as yet, hardly knows of this. Only one city in the world knows what it means to smell 9,500,000 lb. of tomatoes in one day. That city is Camden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Soup | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

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