Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Visitors to the reading room of the new Harvard Business School Library when it is opened must not be surprised to have to find their way through barrages of aromatic tobacco smoke. If no obstacle is encountered the librarians will work on the basis that the proverbial tired business man is not at all a nonenity, but an actuality in the business plant across the Charles and needs nothing so much as a restful pipe of tobacco to sooth his nerves as he labors over ponderous volumes...
...Among the gifts received by the President were innumerable turkeys; a 22-pound, home-cured ham from Governor Gore of West Virginia; more than a dozen canes, which the President does not use; cigars by the hundreds, some of which he will smoke; cigar holders, intended to displace the paper holders which he uses...
...eyes, binds the bowels, relieves pain and fills the brain with languor and strange faces. There is opium in paregoric (baby-soother), in Dover's powder (cold remedy), and in many another household drug, drugs that seem kind. Opium gum looks like black paste. Addicts who smoke it use a small lamp, like a dentist's lamp, over which they give the dark pellet a slow roasting; then they put it in the tiny bowl of a long pipe. Their dreams are gentle. Opium does not waste tissues so quickly as does alcohol...
...darkness by mechanical means. The process involved isolating the invisible rays at their source (a special "search-light") and passing them through or to a medium that would render their effect visible. Since infra-red rays can be cast farther than any visible rays, and will penetrate fog and smoke more readily, the inventor predicted important military uses...
John J. Bernet was born in 1868, son of a Swiss blacksmith. He too learned the blacksmith's trade and became the best horseshoer in Farnham, N. Y. But locomotive smoke smelled better than forge smoke. Young John got himself a job as a telegrapher...