Word: smells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bowdoin's last triumph was an 8 to 5 victory over Colby in a championship contest. It was in this game that it demonstrated those batting potentialities which menace the offerings of the University pitchers. Both Fish, the Bowdoin right fielder, and the first baseman, Smell, were responsible for a safety each time they faced the pitcher, and have played themselves capable of handling anything given them by an opposing nurley throughout the season. These men were in the lineup that took a 6 to 3 defeat from the Crimson last year, as was Robinson. HARVARD BOWDOIN Zarakov...
...redwood when thinking of other ways in which he might make history; that the salt, pepper and sugar in his camp's cookhouses were drawn down between the tables by four-horse teams while tens of thousands of ravenous lumberjacks bounced on their benches for joy at the smell of the great Black Duck dinner cooked by Hot Biscuit Slim; that Johnny Inkslinger, Bunyan's scribe, slept only three hours each week and had 25 barrels of ink hooked up by hoses to his fountain pen; that Great Salt Lake came to be when Paul Bunyan hewed down...
...Airedale terrier was first bred in the valley of the River Aire (tributary to the Ouse), in England. The old English Terrier, a strong, fearless dog, good for vermin and dead game, lacked a good sense of smell. So the people of the Aire valley crossed it with the Otter Hound, making it keen-scented and giving it better watermanship. Other crosses were made to improve the breed. The dogs were first known as Waterside Terriers. The Airedale Agricultural Society, at a farm show, held the first exhibition of this class of dogs in 1879, and decided to give them...
Miss Glenna Collett, famed Providence golfer, thought of a putt. On a certain 19th green, with the smell of a Southern twilight enchanting her frequently photographed nostrils, Miss Collett had seen that putt obtain its velocity from the pendulum swing of Miss Frances Hadfield, travel in an unwavering line for 20 league-long feet, disappear, with a leisured imperiousness, into the hole, thus winning for Miss Hadfield a leg on the Belleair Heights golf championship (TIME, Mar. 16). As if the smell of that twilight, still lingering in the air, enraged her, Miss Collett, last week, swished around...
...support of this argument that she cited Sir Gilbert's uncanny proficiency in thought reading. She believed that in most cases neither sight, sound, smell, taste nor touch had any influence in the remarkable experiments conducted...