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...Diana could be used to map the moon. But Diana's 12° radio beam is 24 times wider than the moon by the time it gets there. Even an enormously narrowed beam would not give more detail than a first-rate telescope. Other astronomers were inclined to sniff at the moon as finished astronomical business...
...Four Hundred" was getting back into form of a sort. Saddened by the New York Social Register's elephantiasis, anonymous socialites (who seemed to favor the Newport set) prepared to sniff the Register out of countenance with the new Almanac of Society. Population...
...this point, Federal Judge Guy K. Bard, who has jurisdiction over the receivers, stepped in. The judge made a visit to the towns to look and sniff for himself...
...give fresh levies from Japan their first sniff of powder...
Sometimes the "cheechakos" (tenderfoot white men) have to fight their way to their nearby stations through furious blizzards. Wolves and bears prowl the air strips and sniff around the doors...