Word: chesterfields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flowers that bloom in the spring, tra-la" crooned the Vagabond as he trudged through the slush toward Plympton Street. He doubled his fists a little closer into the pockets of his Chesterfield and tried to think of the "Transmission of Heat." Professor Black transmits heat, he thought; but this night is air-cooled. One really should give Professor Black a break, though perhaps it would be better to wait for "Heaviside Calculus." Yes, "Heaviside Calculus" would be a much more fanciful subject than "Transmission of Heat," lectures being what they are, and there would be no temptation to introduce...
...Lorillard Co., low already, held fairly steady, closing five-eighths of a point off at 13. Wall Street buzzed with rumors of impending price cuts on the four leading U. S. cigaret brands&-American's Lucky Strike, Reynolds' Camel, Liggett & Myers' Chesterfield, Lorillard's Old Gold-whose price is, and has been for years, 15? for a package...
Rise. Fourteen months ago 90% of the cigarets sold in the U. S. retailed for 15? a package. Tobacco was cheap, cigaret smoking was at its peak. The future looked fine and smoky to Tycoons George Washington (Lucky Strike) Hill, Samuel Clay (Camel) Williams, Clinton W. (Chesterfield) Toms and Benjamin L. (Old Gold) Belt. Acting in concert (though legally disassociated since American Tobacco Co.'s trust was dissolved) they had just upped the wholesale price of their cigarets from $6.40 to $6.85 per thousand (presumably on the strength of the new Cellophane wrapping). Then, all unknown to Messrs. Hill...
...Chaucer Philippe Dur Defee: Robinson Crusoe Maurice Franks Frost's Poems George Lee Haskins Everybody's Pepys John Joseph Hession Lowes: Road to Xanadu Robert Kramer Morison: Development of Harvard University Donald Vincent McGranahan Oxford Book of English Verse Thomas Burton O'Connor Thomson's Poems Leonard Raum Chesterfield's Letters to his Son Herbert Ellis Robbins Everybody's Boswell Edwin Marion Snell Johnson's Lives of the Poets Robert Wetmore Stoughton Shelley's Poems Arthur Wingate Todd Lemaitre: On the Margins of Old Books
...soon as he made his readings of cosmic rays above Mexico, he dashed for a north-bound train. At Kansas City he said good-by to Mrs. Compton and Alan. They proceded to Chicago & home, he to Winnipeg. He wants to get to Chesterfield Inlet north of Churchill in time to note what the solar eclipse does to cosmic rays near the North Magnetic Pole. In his dash Professor Compton hastened past the U. S. Aerological Station at Ellendale, N. D. Thereby he just missed conjunction with his fellow Nobel Laureate, Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan of California Institute of Technology...