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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Superintendent of Schools of Cook County. I demand to enter my office," cried Noble Puffer on the eleventh floor of the County Building in Chicago one morning last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Siege | 8/19/1935 | See Source »

...Rugby and Balliol, settled down to spend his days as a schoolmaster at Sedbergh School, in Yorkshire. There he stayed for 17 years, leaving in friendly, dignified disagreement with the Head because he would not consider preparing boys for confirmation. A master of unbendingly upright character, a pipe-puffer, he was called "Joey Stinker" because he always smelled of tobacco. In a hard-working staff he set the pace, averaged ten hours work a day in term-time, including Sundays. Though he did not feel qualified to be a spiritual mentor, he was religious in the British sense, never missed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lexicographer | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

...marvelous chemical contrivance converted the carbon dioxide of his breath into fuel to run a small motor which turned the rotors! (As everyone should know, carbon dioxide is anything but combustible.) 2) The pilot's name, Koycher (not Kocher), was a freak spelling of Kencher which means "puffer" or "hot air merchant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Daedalus | 4/23/1934 | See Source »

...Puffer In West Paterson, N. J. a crowd gathered around a parked automobile to watch 23-month-old Charles Normand III and his father, a steam shovel operator, puff black cigars. Baby Normand's mother explained that he had started to smoke his father's cigars at 14 months, now has one of his own each night at cribtime. Whenever he sees a cigar or pipe, Baby Normand says: "'Moke, 'moke! me want." He does not inhale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 24, 1933 | 7/24/1933 | See Source »

Puff. Representing 29 U. S. peace-promoting organizations. Mrs Laura Puffer Morgan called on Ambassador Gibson at Geneva, gave the President's proposals a thoroughgoing puff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: President Proposes | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

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