Word: sniff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many eye doctors were inclined to sniff at the optometrists' new chart, arguing that most such gadgets are crude at best, and the Snellen is no cruder than the rest. However, the last word may be the optometrists' : they give three times as many eyesight tests as the ophthalmologists...
...lion's paw. Scholars have long known better. In A Monument to St Jerome (Sheed & Ward; $4.50) nine Roman Catholic authorities have 'written a combined character sketch of one of the livehest, most learned and most cantankerous saints ever to be canonized a pummeling controversialist who could sniff out obscure heresies as a veteran fire-buff smells smoke...
...jukeboxes across the land at a depressing rate. In Los Angeles, one adolescent worshiper of Crooner Johnny Ray, the Mossadegh of music, hurried to a friend to confide: "The guy went clear out on this one-he sounds like he really broke up." Other devotees, sharp enough to sniff a burlesque on their idol, launched an avalanche of protests at hilarious disk jockeys and at Capitol Records...
Arthur B. Lamb, Erving Professor of Chemistry, emeritus, and Frederick G. Keyes, Chairman Emeritus of the department of Chemistry at M.I.T., were employed by Alfred Bicknell Associates, a Cambridge firm, to perfect the Alcometer, which accurately measures a person's alcohol content by taking an electrochemical sniff of his breath...
...from the back fence of literature, the comic strips have suffered an intellectual hiatus. One syndicate was ready with Barnaby, a cheerful little psycho whose daydreams, and all the characters in them, came to life; but where Krazy Kat breathed a sort of smoky, city poetry that anyone could sniff, Barnaby and his friends mumbled social parables that a lot of well-wishers soon wearied of puzzling...