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Word: cigaretes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...House. By mutual agreement, this procedure was dispensed with last week in the case of Dr. Don Leon de Bayle, newly appointed Minister from Nicaragua, who arrived at the White House in a business suit, greeted the President in his office instead of the stately Blue Room, puffed a cigaret while the President chatted with him for 15 minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: News Blanket | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

...years ago they got to discussing some means of eliminating nicotine. Mr. Davis thought of an aluminum holder with a filter of activated alumina, an absorbent much used in chemistry. This proved too expensive, but in the experiments Aluminum Co. Chemist R. B. Derr noticed that butts of the cigarets in contact with aluminum were always soggy and black with absorbed nicotine and tar. This was because tobacco is itself one of the best possible nicotine absorbers and because aluminum's sensitivity to temperature makes it condense the fumes quickly. Chemist Derr tried using an ordinary cigaret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Zeus | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...weeks ago began distributing black aluminum holders in several sizes at $1 and $2 each. By last week Zeus holders were selling like hot cakes. Most convincing evidence of the gadget's merit lies in the using. Commented Esquire: "After you smoke a pack, take out the cigaret filter and be thankful that what you see is in the filter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Zeus | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

While the Duke lit a cigaret to gain elbow room, Buttonhole Orator Ley singled out a worker, crying: "You are happy here, are you not, my worker comrade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Hett Windsor! | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

Suddenly the door opened to reveal Homer Martin's evangelical features looking like those of a cornered gangster. He had a cigaret between his lips, a pistol in his fist. Stepping back from the pistol pointed at his midriff, Leader Gallagher said icily: "That's a hell of a way to greet a union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Purge & Pistol | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

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