Word: smelling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Drake. A wind full of the smell of rain, a long, sawtooth Iowa wind, blew into the faces of runners at Des Homes, caught at the legs of jumpers, tossed thrown javelins like feathers, so that no world's record and only one local record were broken in the Drake relays...
...dull evening for Fire Engine Company No. 9, one of those lazy April evenings in Washington when you can smell the park cherry blossoms all over town and a fireman's life is just one repression after another. The men of Number Nine sat in their chairs mooning, or wishing some one knew a funny story newer than the one about red suspenders. Nobody got excited when-Dang-galang! -an alarm came...
Meanwhile on top of the Knob in a huge circus tent crowded with a thousand guests, steaming with the warm smell of barbecue, Southern style, Uncle Alf held court. The baying of the hounds grew fainter outside. Uncle Alf rambled on until dawn, delighting the merrymakers with reminiscences. Scores of uniformed Negroes bustled about, serving the immense banquet to which ten sheep, ten pigs, 500 pounds of beef, had contributed. All "the fixin's" were there...
...unconditioned reflex is the simplest nervous reaction. A dog will smell food and turn in its direction. Nature believes in preparedness and the dog will secrete saliva as he goes for the food. Only the lower parts of the brain are concerned in this reaction. But, if a bell is rung every time the food appears, there will come a time when the dog will secrete saliva at the sound of the bell when there is no food in sight...
...Senators asked about bootlegging and harlots. They smelled at drinking water and tried not to smell other moistures. They quizzed miners, both striking and strikebreaking, about wages and the cost of living, warning vigilant mine officials to keep quiet during the questioning...