Word: sniff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Snuff addicts "dip" or "sniff" four lbs. a year, apiece. Thus far in 1928, one-tenth of the population of the U. S. has consumed 41,000,000 Ibs. In 1880, one-fiftieth consumed 4,000,000 lbs. American Snuff Co. stock has slowly climbed from...
Certain debased and penny-pinching non-smokers of the U.S. and other countries are known to ride brazenly in smoking cars, with intent to sniff tobacco fumes without expense and without twinge of conscience...
...Jerome's careful chapters during the centuries when these were circulated by hand and copied by hasty, sometimes stupid scribes. The Cardinal's method is simple, laborious, exact. He commands a commission of twelve Benedictine monks whose assistants hunt the libraries and collections of Europe, dig and sniff in curious corners, and retrieve for him old manu scripts. By judiciously comparing these, of which some 20,000 have now been gathered, it will be possible to determine more precise readings than those now used...
...were in seclusion, sending out, if you will, merely daily bulletins as to his intellectual health: pulse--normal; respiration--noticeable. But he himself has rarely appeared in public due--to the wintry weather, the recent Junior revel--what you will. Today, in fact he has come forth to sniff the air, like a belated ground hog some will say; not indeed to say anything of much pertinence. But the mythical approach of spring with its flowers and tree and other shapsodic subjects, and perhaps the fact that it was brought to his attention that Professor Pray is to lecture...
...dream, waking farmers to a remembrance of grief, there winds through Manhattan the sound of boat horns. To those who grope for sleep in the darkness before dawn, they are hounds baying a gigantic sorrow, whining the threat of a remote doom. In the morning, sharp black noses sniff a zigzag scent across the harbor down the Hudson; the horns make cheerful yappings that in the dark, were the voices of a nightmare...