Word: scent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regards perfumed anesthetics (TIME, Feb. 22), the effects might not be as anticipated. Any scent, agreeable or otherwise, associated with an operation, would very likely be revolting if not nauseating, and the recovered patient very likely would abhor that odor for the remainder of his life. An anesthetic with no odor at all would probably be more agreeable...
...Parasites have sharp noses, so scientists studied their scent-life, developed synthetic odors to lure them to destruction instead of to meals of human flesh. Incidentally, if an ant met another ant in a pitch-black tunnel its nose would immediately register the other's age, weight, color and sex, and it could act accordingly...
...plants. Mrs. Grieve had been growing some in her Buckinghamshire gardens. She enlarged the plots, trained pupils drying of herbs and their preparation market. Mrs. Leyel, who would have studied medicine if her first lesson in dissection had not repelled her, had long experimented with plants for cooking and scent blending. An energetic woman, she has written previous books on the herbal art, founded the Society of Herbalists, established Culpeper House in London as herbalist headquarters and salesroom. Mrs. Leyel has a rural home near Bognor, Sussex, where King George convalesced from his chest ailments. At Bognor, it is said...
...liked the commodious living rooms in every house, and quadrangle, where the grass is as fine as a putting green, and men in the college can get an occasional sight or scent of flowers there in season. We liked the great, scroll-worked gates, and the tall arches. We liked the unreal pastel tints of the soaring domes, and we liked the formal garden effect of the trim-banked Charles...
...Schulte. Creditors of bankrupt Schulte-United 5? to $1 Stores, Inc. and its subsidiaries (Schulte-United, Inc. and Miller's Inc.) last week accepted David Albert Schulte's $3,965,000 offer for the three companies. Schulte-United Scent to $1 Stores, Inc. was originally formed with $35,000,000 capital...