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...faint, sweet smell of burning...
Renoir quoted Sartre in outlining his philosophy of film-making. "Just as essence comes after existence, we know what we are doing only by shaping out work. We have to see, to touch, to smell, to hear, I have made several blue prints for films in my life, and they were all false...
Bargain Investments. Many of today's foreign buyers are Europeans (mostly Germans, followed by the Dutch, Belgians and Swiss) impelled partly by a desire to escape dismal winters but still more by the smell of a bargain investment. Florida lots often cost about one-fifth the price of a comparable homesite on the Continent. Typical terms: as little as $1,295 for a 10,000-sq.-ft. plot with water and sewerage connections, and $25 down and eight years to pay at 5% interest. Moreover, if they choose to build, Europeans get more house for their money...
Modern plant research, writes German Biologist Stefan Vogel in Um-schau, has supplied a sudden flood of knowledge about the behavior of trap flowers. Their blossoms range from one-half inch to two feet in length. They lure insects to their traps by the unfloral smell that their osmophores give off during the "lure phase"; yet even the smells vary-from fecal-like, to cidery, to urine-like, to musky...
...improve and spread this supply the Common Market set up new and detailed regulations for grading and packing garlic (the bulbs must be free of dirt, manure or nongarlic smell) and decided to eliminate gradually all tariffs and import price controls on it. The plan, which was considered with all the solemnity suited to the occasion, was passed without a sniff of dissent...