Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Owing to a filthy fog of soft coal smoke that descends inches deep upon Westmorly Hall early in the morning and rests there during the day, an emphatic protest has been registered by the dormitory inmates with the Cambridge Department of Public Safety...
...inspector appeared several days ago, according to J. F. Brady, janitor of the dormitory, and examined the clouded corridors, the mauve bed-spreads, and the soot-stained porticos of the dormitory. His attitude was non-committal but he ventured the statement before leaving that ordinances against soft-coal smoke had been seldom enforced since the recurrent coal strikes of the past few winters. He has not been seen since...
...what "old school" burlesque is. They have never been west of Allentown, Pennsylvania, on the Lehigh. Nor have they tried that excellent establishment, the Howard Athenaeum. Of course the best friend after a visit to burlesque of the "old school" is an old clothes merchant, for where there's smoke there's sure to be smell--as the old proverb says--but, in the long run as Nurnri used to say, it is worth it. For physicists can learn what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable body and doctors can leave why, when he signs up has chorus...
There are two things particularly interesting to note in connection with what these Presidents have declared. The first is that in the campaign from which the smoke has not yet had chance to clear a number of prominent participants have been men of independent means, men obviously not in the political field to reap monetary harvest. In the immediate locality both gubernatorial candidates, Fuller and Gaston, and Senator Butler come under this category. In an adjacent state the names of Wadsworth and Mills suggest families of considerable financial prominence...
...report that school authorities in smoke-hung Birmingham, Eng., had investigated the hygienic qualities of window glass constructed to permit the passage of the ultraviolet rays of sunlight and found this glass so far superior to common panes that they had ordered it installed in all Birmingham schools (TIME, Oct. 18), had prime interest for U. S.* glass manufacturers. The Corning Glass Works (Corning, N. Y.), family company of U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain, Alanson B. Houghton, swiftly called attention (see LETTERS) to its recent perfection of a glass, soon to be produced commercially, which transmits 86% of sunlight...