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...land. Thereafter, the French patrols drove cattle and pigs ahead of them. Says Lieut. Colonel Paul W. Thompson, U.S. authority on land mines: "As long as the supply of animals holds out, the method has its points. Its efficacy is indicated in German reports describing the odor of decaying swine flesh which pervaded the Arndt Forest...
...body, turning his bathing trunks inside out, placed an enormous red geranium behind one ear, a pearl necklace round his neck, and finally smeared his whole body with a mixture of goat dung and aspic. From this there emerged, says Dali, "Miracle of miracles!-the 'exact' odor of the ram . . . a stifling stench...
Polish, Curiosity, Comics. A cross between the London Times and James Gordon Bennett's old New York Herald, La Prensa is unlike any other newspaper anywhere. In its fine old building the rooms are lofty and spiced with the odor of wax polish, long accumulated. Liveried flunkies pass memoranda and letters from floor to floor on an old pulley and string contraption. But high-speed hydraulic tubes whip copy one mile from the editorial room to one of the world's most modern printing plants-more than adequate to turn out La Prensa's 280,000 daily...
Freshmen can't know how different Harvard is. But upperclassmen are beginning to recognize that beneath the familiar facade of Lehman Hall and the familiar odor that pervades newly cleaned rooms in the Houses, something has changed. It's not just the odd shapes of double-decker beds, and the war bond thermometer looking down on the Square, although these things are certainly part of the change. It's rather a feeling, growing stronger with every headline, that Harvard's way of life is becoming increasingly incompatible with our effort to defend...
...smell of hot oil, hot rubber, leather and sweat pervades each steel machine. To this in action is added the bitter odor of powder smoke. And when a tank stops for a moment, fumes from the noisy, thrashing engine drift forward to add to the bouquet...