Word: scenting
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...fellow Negroes soon began to scent fraud, and a meeting of the Friends of Negro Freedom (August 6,1922) declared his schemes impracticable, and that he was secretly in sympathy with the Ku Klux Klan...
...three-page account in the Hearst press, can imagine themselves either the beautiful Broadway butterfly, Dorothy King; the rich and socially prominent "angel" and man of mystery, John Mitchell; the dark and debonnaire South American cave man, Guimares; the tragic mother, Mrs. Keenan; the crafty sleuths hot on the scent of the blackmailing murderer; the poor, humiliated wife in Palm Beach; or even the colored maid, Billie Bradford, discreet and loyal confidant of the white beauty and her "important" lover...
...unlucky Senior learns, if he has followed this false scent, first, that the preparation for his Divisionals and the work of his courses come in unrelated fields; whereas, if he had left some of his Concentration until Senior year, at least a few of his courses would coincide with his special preparation, and strengthen him for the tests in May. Also, he suddenly remembers that a grade of A or B on those tests would excuse him from final examinations in all courses that lie in his field of Concentration. But if he is not taking courses in that field...
Hudson Maxim, the inventor, suggested to the National Cotton Conference for Boll Weevil Control that inasmuch as insects are guided by smell, it might be possible to destroy the boll weevil by baiting traps with the scent of the female. If the method could be developed it might be made effective against the house fly, mosquito, ant, and other pests...
...that the Englishman loves sport more than the American. He will go out to play golf in the middle of a raging snowstorm with the thermometer down to ten. And when the conditions of the ground and weather preclude any possibility of the hounds being able to follow the scent, he will go hunting just the same. Everyone goes in for some sport. There are practically no "grinds" in our sense of that word at Oxford or Cambridge. The types of flat-chester, sallow, bespectacled student one sees laboring in the stacks of Widener do not exist here...