Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...breezes of August. A scene fished upon his inner eye,--the scene of two vessels, well out to sea, one a stately yacht, glistening with brass and pearly canvas, the other a grim, gray cutter of the revenue fleet. At the same moment a puff of white smoke escaped the muzzle of the signal gun on the prow of the cutter, and an instant later the towering schooner was headed into the wind, her tops' I canvas rattling like the sound of cannon on high...
...ready-made clothes, while only 24 per cent went to the tailor for their suits. Automobiles were personally owned by 27 per cent, while an additional 29 per cent have the use of a car. Sixty-five per cent of these men are regular smokers, only five per cent smoke cigars regularly, 42 per cent smoke pipes. The large percentage of 82 are habitual cigarette smokers. Eight per cent of all Harvard students smoke expensive cigarettes. It is revealed also that 66 per cent have telephones in their rooms, 70 per cent have their own typewriters, while 60 per cent...
Amid the aroma of cigar smoke President Hoover was talking to big, burly Christopher Morley, poet and writer, in the Lincoln Study. Inquisitive about the President's reading habits Mr. Morley had been invited as an overnight White House guest. Last week's Saturday Review of Literature published his White House findings...
Carving a wide white scar up & down Detroit's Lake St. Clair one morning last week roared brown-hulled Miss America X, her four Packard motors tuning up within 200 r. p. m. of their maximum 2,700. Timers clocked the flying wedge of smoke and spray at an average of 124.91 m. p. h. for two statute miles-a new world's record, 5.16 m. p. h. faster than Kaye Don's time in Miss England III last spring on Loch Lomond. Climbing out of his boat, the old silver fox of U. S.-speed-boating...
Hollis 15 and the two companion rooms in the same hall are now given over to Freshmen, renovated for the first time in many years, electricity installed, and the lamp smoke of twenty years removed from the ceiling. It is the passing from the Yard of one of Harvard's few "living traditions...