Word: odore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scout bee cannot smell flowers at any great distance; its odor perception is about as sharp as a man's. But when it alights on a flower to which it has been attracted by sight, it is so close to the flower's scent glands that very faint odors are perceptible. Most flowers have "scent spots," which the bee feels out with the organs of smell on its antennae. The scent spots lead the scout to the cups where the nectar lies...
When the scout bee enters the hive, he says, it climbs to a section of comb and starts a stylized dance. Other bees gather around, caressing the scout with their touch-and-smell antennae. The scout bee's odor, picked up from the flower it has robbed, tells them what sort of flower they should look...
...group of seniors decided to drop off at an ale-house on their way back to their rooms. So they walked into a place on Wooster Street--any old bar would do--and were surprised to find themselves surrounded by the sombre atmosphere, the odor of British ale, the characteristic old prints, the quiet, order, and decency of an old English grilleroom...
...floor it resembles the great hall of a medieval castle, and on the second floor there is a trophy room that looks like the grand council chamber in a movie version of Hamlet. The only thing which gives Payne-Whitney away as a place of athletics is the faint odor of perspiration which pervades the whole place...
...refrigerator, belonging to Raymond E. Kassar, Joseph L. Stendig, H. Frederick Krimindahi IL, and Lee J. Moldsworth, all first-year men was delivered early is the afternoon. Before long, Kasser and Moldsworth noticed as odor of sulphur dioxide...