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...reduces all odors to four basic ones: fragrant (e.g., animal musk), acid (vinegar), burnt (roasted coffee), caprylic (goaty or sweaty). Each is further classified in eight degrees of strength. These basic smells in various combinations make up thousands of different odors, most of which Crocker can recognize at one sniff...
...civic nostrils of this ex-newspaperwoman widened when recently she began to hear from such friends as U.S. Surgeon General Thomas Parran about appalling housing and sanitation conditions and increases in venereal disease and delinquency in war-plant areas and military towns. Mrs. Meyer began to sniff printer's ink again...
...fine ear for the devilish ironies and self-betrayals of normal speech (or writing), and her whole book is nervous and vivid with them. But she has also the monologuist's weakness for overemphasis, for sacrificing psychological integrity in favor of a laugh or a sniff. Even so, The Whole Heart is an impressive, realistic piece of work...
...hold the Democratic lines intact his confirmation is assured. This week at a brief meeting in Chicago, Flynn relinquished the Democratic chairmanship to balding, dutiful Postmaster General Frank C. Walker. Said Ed Flynn of that meeting: "The air is oppressive with harmony around here." Then he packed up to sniff a different climate...
...have been concocted to guard the skin from irritating chemicals. Insurance companies, which often have to fork over for industrial dermatoses, also encourage their use. Sales have doubled in the last year, and girls leave aircraft plants with smooth hands, after degreasing plane parts all day. But most doctors sniff at these industrial cosmetics. They claim that cleanliness will do the same trick...