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...confident that the Widener Reading Room will still smell the same, but it won't matter. There won't be any reading in books. All the tomes will have been made over into microfilm reels, and cramming will be as good as going to the movies. After having filled up the open space between Widener and the Memorial Chapel with new library buildings, the College will have decided to burrow underground for excess storage space, and Weld will have collapsed into the Indic Philology and Semantics wing of the basement. Students will still learn in their Junior year that Widener...
...floating smell of flowers invisible...
...with his crew over the intercommunicating phone. To his Scottish navigator: "Hey, Mac, where are we now, as if you'd know?" Mac, indignantly: "I ken fine where we are. We're approaching Karlsruhe-famous for its breweries, you know." "O.K., let's go down and smell its breath." Over the target the mood changes. Flak (antiaircraft) and tracers zoom upward in great, searing arcs, phosphorescent balls of fire in the black night. Starting slowly, they pick up tremendous speed, whoof past the bomber like heaven-bent rockets...
...unhappy Philadelphians, sniffing the sewage-polluted Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers, the President's 24-year-old smell was a daily experience. Brought to the verge of bankruptcy by years of mismanagement, the city was unable to finance a proposed $42,000,000 sewage-disposal plant (TIME, Oct.. 13). City water is practically undrinkable,* and Philadelphians face the constant hazard of fire with an inadequate water-supply system...
Republicans, who have been entrenched in Philadelphia for 10 years, croaked that Mr. Roosevelt was just playing politics in the middle of Philadelphia's municipal election campaign. Most Philadelphians, whose long-suffering noses have almost lost their sense of political smell, hardly cared...