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When special cases in Baltimore hospitals began getting propethylene, its advantages became clear:1) though it has an etherish smell, patients rarely fight when going under; 2) it is safer to give than ether (less need be given; concentration is low in a patient's blood); 3) in warm weather (and climates) the effect lasts longer than ether's; 4) it does not evaporate as readily as ether, which makes it advantageous for use in the tropics...
...more than 20 years tough old Nettie Thompson, a revolver strung from her neck-to use on interlopers-stuck to her barren cattle land on Wyoming's Polecat Bench. She had homesteaded there in 1913 after hearing tales of a ranch hand who traced a suspicious smell to a prairiedog hole, lit his pipe as he peered into it-and woke up in the hospital. He had smelled natural...
...Germany" earmarked at least 350 two-ton blockbusters for Berlin alone. As in London in 1941, Berlin's fires gorged themselves for two days. Buildings had to be dynamited to stop the fire's spread. How many lay cremated under the rubble, how strong was the smell of cordite, burnt flesh and sweat, how many were without homes, kin, legs, eyes, no one could...
Crocker has found that flavor and smell are more closely related than most people heretofore realized: if one holds his nose, for example, an apple tastes much like an onion...
Punishment? Public indignation bubbled up in Detroit. Congressman Paul W. Shafer called the verdict a "farce," a "travesty" and "disgustingly inadequate." The Detroit Free Press called it a "white wash" and "an insult to the fighting forces." The Detroit Times said "it will smell to heaven," and went back 131 years to find a local parallel of military shame when "the coward Hull surrendered De troit to the British without even swinging a punch...