Word: sniff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good mixer, he has known most of them by their first names for years. His pince-nez slide down his long snipe nose. He wears coats two sizes too big. His felt hat is generally cocked at a raffish angle. For weekends he goes off on a destroyer to sniff salt air or visits the Hoover camp on the Rapidan, now in charge of marines. In his office he scorns details. When mail stacks up too high before him, he sweeps it impatiently into a basket, sends it out to his assistants with a: "Let 'em answer...
...suffered due to lack of aggressive leadership and clear-cut purpose within the Board. Its importance as a relief agency has dwindled. Its public works program is still meshed in red tape. Neglected by the White House, it has become an administrative orphan in Washington. Congress continues to sniff suspiciously at its past. Last week the Senate sent the House a bill prohibiting the R. F. C. from lending money to corporations which paid any of their executives more than $17,500 per year, thus barring as borrowers practically all railroads, big banks and large industrial concerns...
...third largest menagerie in the U. S. The animal most amenable to direction was the gibbon (Amos), who is accustomed to camera work. Most intractable was a supercilious warthog. In one scene a woman visitor complains about the smell of the animals. The wart-hog gives her a derisive sniff. Director Lee produced the proper expression by offering the wart-hog a carrot, substituting a piece of raw beef to make him disgusted...
Arriving in Pittsburgh for the most important game of the week, Notre Dame's Coach Heartly ("Hunk") Anderson gave a satisfied sniff. Reporters asked him why. Said Coach Anderson: "The weather . . . it's nice, and that's all we ask." Nice weather was all that Notre Dame got. A crowd of 65,000, biggest of the week, watching two undefeated teams each with a chance for the championship of the U. S., saw the most surprising upset of the season so far, Pitt 12, Notre Dame...
...Manhattan colloquium that there are not more than 50 competent cancer research workers in the world and therefore he would not recommend large endowments for cancer research laboratories such as Dr. James Ewing urges (TIME, Jan. 17, 1931), some one of the lesser multitude may any day sniff out some great discovery in the cancer field...