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Word: smoke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...More men smoke in the class of 1929 than in the Freshman class. 362 Sophomores smoke while only 294 Freshmen use tobacco. This is a decrease of four percent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PHYSICAL EXAMINATION RESULTS ARE RELEASED | 1/29/1927 | See Source »

From the Straits Settfements, a Crown colony comprising Singapore, Penang and Malacca, news came last week that the local British administration derives some ?2,500,000 ($12,150,000) annually from opium revenues. Opium, called locally chandu, was reported on sale at $8 an ounce, in "smoke parlors" operated by the government, whereas the government imports tin drug from China for less than $1 an ounce. During 1925 almost $300 000 was spent by the government in building new and more luxurious "smoke parlors" which are now reported in full blast. The natives, accustomed to chandu, apparently feel no more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Chandu | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

...three came home early from a party to the place in which they had their respective apartments, one of those remodeled houses west of Fifth Avenue-a restaurant on the first floor, a dressmaking place on the second. The two girls lived across the hall from Actor Daly. Smoke woke them up in the night. The stairs were on fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Daly | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

...such and such a day for the official inauguration of the latest and grandest achievement of science. The leading thugs and gunmeu of our great middle Western metropolis will congregate at one end of the line and the cream of Cambridge gentlemen robbers will assemble in Arthur's Smoke Shop on the other...

Author: By A. L. S., | Title: THE CRIME | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

...that the finishing touch would be supplied if the graduate business man could meditate over his favorite pipe of tobacco, whether it be Prince Albert, Edgeworth or the latest Union brand. Indeed, someone in authority has stated that if he had his way every man would be compelled to smoke, that he likes to see a man smoke a pipe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Business School Library Is First to Permit Smoking--Breaks Ancient Tradition Dating Back to Sir Walter Raleigh's Time | 1/21/1927 | See Source »

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