Word: odorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ward cars filled with . . . excited exclamations at sight of lighted street lamps along the highways. . . . Attendants came in with supper trays for the litter cases and the warm ward car filled with the odor of roast chicken and hot potatoes. A soldier grinned happily: 'Real American chicken...
...like Venus, proud and unattired. From every wall, in every size & shape (and, by tradition, from the ceiling above the bed), mirrors stare at each other. All the upholstery is white-satin brocade, slowly aging, soon to be replaced (by white-satin brocade). There is a husky odor of high-priced perfumes...
...Stretcher bearers carrying out casualties often have to wade waist-deep in muddy water. The jungle stinks with a dead, musty odor which is even worse in the forward areas where the bodies of the Japs lie buried...
...among other things, with spices. One of the most difficult things to reproduce in the laboratory is a spice. A natural spice is an extremely subtle blend of many ingredients, and the absence of even a trace of a key ingredient may make a big difference in odor and taste. Therefore, attempts to find out how to synthesize spices by chemical analysis have not been successful. But an inventive Cambridge chemist named Ernest Charlton Crocker has just produced three synthetic spices very close to the real thing-nutmeg, cinnamon and white pepper. In so doing, he has used only...
...synthesize nutmeg, Crocker analyzed the natural spice with his tongue and nose, then tried hundreds of chemical combinations to get the right shades of odor and flavor. The result was a compound of more than 40 different ingredients, including several varieties each of phenols, alcohols, esters and aldehydes. All these were mixed in a meal ground to nutmeg's consistency...