Word: smells
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tonight's game will probably be a close one as Colby partisans contend that the town's smell has nothing to do with the hockey team. Last year, Harvard's ECAC championship squad had little trouble disposing of the Mules, 7-1, But then last year's team demolished North-eastern...
When Sorbonne students spot an empty lecture hall, they rush in like beggars after a tycoon's cigar butt. Lucky ones perch on worn wooden benches, using their laps for desks; others stand or squat in the aisles. The rooms smell; the lighting is dim. The typical Sorbonne lecture hall holds only half the students enrolled in a course. Sitting in a remote stairwell just within earshot of the podium, one girl recently sighed: "The other day I raised my head and actually saw the professor...
Pomegranate Jam. What Sunset's got is an idealized picture of the West in which the ugly smell of smog is displaced by the fragrance of burning charcoal, and the passionflower vine blots out the sight of the freeway traffic jam. Sunset's horizon is limited to its subject matter, and its subject matter is limited to four categories: Western Gardening, Western Homes, Western Food and Western Travel...
Cambridge people usually avoid talking about the Charles River; it has a very embarrassing smell. A longstanding rumor says that the odiferous river carries an immense amount of sewage, industrial wastes, and garbage. The rumor is wrong. The engineers at the Massachusetts Public Health laboratories have found that the Charles, even by national standards, is quite clean. In fact, MPH engineers consider the Charles one of the state's cleanest small rivers...
...which is said apocryphally to have happened in Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square. The most effective columbifuge so far seems to be a gooey chemical trade-named Roost-No-More, which is smeared on the cornices of buildings. It gives the pigeons a mild hotfoot, and they avoid its smell...