Word: noses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...glasses were brought to bear upon it, and instead of a violent, submarine volcanic action I saw two mammoth denizens of the deep-two whales-who were having a glorious time, splashing and frisking, tail-thwacking and nose-bumping, diving and hurdling, and their actions for a considerable radius had churned the calm, listless sea into a veritable caldron of boiling, foaming, angry water...
Gurdjieff defined a normal person as one ''capable of actualizing his own potentialities." Great example: Leonardo da Vinci. The normal person, he declared, was developed to his biological limit. He believes, for instance, continual selfconscious attention to olfactory sensations would finally render a man's nose as keen as a dog's; that similar results could be obtained with other mental, physical, emotional potentialities. Most famed Institutee: the late Katherine Mansfield, who died of advanced consumption (1924) at the Institute. Other onetime Institutees: Jane Heap, Margaret Anderson (onetime editors of the late Little Review...
...whom she coaxes out of a cabaret and into a gymnasium, Robert Armstrong, who makes a specialty of playing stupid fight ers, gets several laughs. Best shot: the big fight between Armstrong and McCloskey, when Fannie Brice yells to McCloskey to hit her onetime sweetheart on his re modelled nose...
...Fannie Brice had her own nose remodelled in real life, in Atlantic City, 1923-The august New York Times celebrated the occasion with one of its extremely infrequent wisecracks: (the nose) . . . "was condemned and torn down and a'high-class modern structure erected on the site." (TIME...
...this way the compression of the layers of the limestone under the meteor can easily be seen, as well as the sharp upward bending of these layers on the sides. Owing to the position of the meteor it is not possible to ascertain how much of a "nose" it has, and how deep this nose has buried itself in the rock. Accordingly only a rough estimate can be made of its mass, in all probability not less than fifty tons...