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...invigorating effect of the common snowplow on the activities of local policemen and their minions. At the first signs of snow the minions are out with their tow trucks. "Snow Removal," they mutter, as they yank your car off to their garage, looking nervously over their shoulders for the snout of the all-devouring plow looming up behind a drift. They might as well be looking for a Sno-Go. The tow trucks come and go, but still squatting in the rectangular grimy mounds where the cars have been is the snow, a little sullied but determined to stick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: God Put It There... | 2/28/1952 | See Source »

...soften the snout of the menacing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 1, 1951 | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

...first of July, the students hope to set up base camp at the snout of a Carnicero glacier. Then comes the long climb up the glacier, over sun pockets and crevasses, to "col camp" in a saddle of the mountain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mountaineering Club Scales Peru Peak During Summer | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

...Literary Gazette continued with further literary remarks on onetime Hero Tito: "The workers [of Yugoslavia] have long since discerned the repulsive and vile snout of the Belgrade deserter to the camp of imperialism, hireling spy and murderer, bankrupt fascist traitor to his country and to the cause of Socialism." The people are not deceived, said the Literary Gazette, when "the Wall Street gentlemen spare no dollars to make the insolent dwarf Tito appear a giant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Literary Life | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...principal moving part, is spinning some 13,000 times per minute (though with only the faintest vibration). The fire raging in its heart would heat 1,000 five-room houses in zero weather (though much of the engine's exterior is cool). From the air intake in its snout, invisible hooks reach out; their suction will clasp a man who comes too close and break his body. The blast roaring out the tail will knock a man down at 150 ft. The reaction of the speeding jet of gas pushes against the test stand with a two-ton thrust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: More Power to You | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

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