Word: scent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bren guns, eight Thompsons and rifles, trotted down Komotine's cobbled streets, the inhabitants hung out of their windows to see what was happening. Curfew was in force because the rebels had shelled the town with 65 mm. cannon a few nights before. Out in the countryside the scent of almond blossoms filled the damp air. Overhead the sky was clear and stars shone back from puddles of water and the shallow streams we crossed. Occasionally, glowworms, kicked up by the horses' hooves, lit the path...
Last week, the Chamber of Commerce and the mayor of Colorado Springs, which lies on the plain below Pikes Peak, uncorked a magnificent scheme to build a tomb for Zeb Pike on the mountaintop he never reached. Colorado papers, scent ing another tourist attraction, played the story big; the Colorado delegation in Congress whooped it up. Said a Chamber of Commerce official: "If we can just get old Zeb and add him to the rest of the stuff we got here, it'll mean millions, boy, millions...
...scent of a new series of Radcliffe lectures about "sex and marriage in modern society," 50 Crimson undergraduates, with hair neatly combed, presented themselves at Long-fellow Hall Wednesday to hear Dr. Thelma G. Alper, lecturer in Clinical Psychology, give the first in the series...
...class reporting, that book was a brilliant shifting of floodlights around modern forms of an ancient depravity. In the guise of casual memoirs, Four Studies in Loyalty affirms the beauty of the contrary virtue-a virtue that may be as subtle and incalculable in its effects as a fresh scent on a spring morning...
...They learned his ways and, hitched to man's rising star, flourished. At present the black and brown rats are more completely domesticated than horses or cattle; there are none at all in the original wild state. They are so accustomed to living with men that the best scent lure for attracting them, says Specialist Nicholes, is the man-scent...