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...noise of battle was fainter in our ears, but it was still perfectly audible. Sweat began to etch rivulets down dusty faces and clot in the stubble of three-day beards. With brows pressed against the rubber cushion above the periscope we watched the battle panorama unroll. The smell of cordite and the smell of dead bodies filtered through the vents and seemed to enter our pores...
...last 'poon was. Unuzual, y'might say. 'Nother funny thing izzat it looked familiar. Never seen a 'poon that looked so familiar. Most of 'em y' never knew, or ever wanted to know, and y' leave 'em in th' icebox 'till they cool off a bit and lose dat smell y' can always tell an honest 'poon...
...when cattlemen in North Dakota and Canada complained that some of their stock died from bleeding scratches and bumps, like human hemophiliacs. He found the guilty chemical in spoiled sweet-clover hay, named it Dicumarol because it is formed from the harmless chemical, coumarin, which gives fresh clover its smell. The cows' problem was solved by planting clover with a low coumarin content...
From these films TIME'S Scandinavian Edition is printed (in English, of course) with all the news from our regular U.S. editions-and copies are quickly placed on sale at 2,000 newsstands from Malmö (where you can smell the smoke of burning Berlin when the wind is from the south) to Boden, 50 miles from the Arctic Circle...
...Then one of the bombed-outs got influenza. Someone began sneaking food from the cupboard. Then after the mid-December raid the water supply went bad and my visitors began to smell. They may have remarked the same about me. During the same raid a brother of one of my visitors was bombed out, and came around to move into my house. The new arrivals smelled even before they arrived...