Word: odorants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Murdered Dummy. The workers did no such thing. After listening for a few seconds, one of them rushed over and furiously stabbed the dummy scout with her sting. Smelling the deathly odor of venom, the other bees withdrew. This ritual murder was repeated many times. Something was obviously wrong...
...short, the freedom that is supposedly threatened is the freedom of the individual to be fully himself. An ad in a fashion magazine no longer warns of body odor but of a more dreadful threat: "If you're not you, you're nobody...
Lamont Library, for instance, is so tightly sealed it might serve as a space station, complete with air locks at the entrances. A controlled atmosphere may assist study, but the attempt at complete regulation has produced a number of unplanned side effects in Lamont. The characteristic odor has become part of the Harvard experience. The entire fifth and sixth levels are afflicted with an audible and tactile rumble, which sets scores of those little panes in the light fixtures rattling. A cold gale often blows out of the vents in Woodberry poetry room. Most distracting, however, is the fifth floor...
...aura of optimism everybody has here," says a new arrival. "Everybody thinks he can do the job that's put to him, and he goes about it in a happy manner." In other cities, citizens sniff foul air and worry about pollution; in Houston, they savor the pungent odor that wafts from the refineries and chemical plants and cheerfully call it "the smell of money...
Gates said that the sewage system depends on an accumulation of rainwater to seal off the odor in the pipes. Because this was an unusually cold and dry winter, underground lines froze, forcing the sewers to back...