Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decks cleared for action. Gunnery officers and navigators worked their range finders and slide rules, scribbled calculations. The eight eight-inch guns of the Australia fired a deafening broadside, the Canberra followed with her main battery. Fountains of white spray rose round the little target-ship, but when the smoke cleared, the Torrens still rode at anchor. Australia's navy tried again and yet again until Rear Admiral E. R. G. R. Evans judged that enough of the Commonwealth's money had been blown away, sent a motor launch bobbing over the waves to sink the Torrens with...
While asserting that training was an important item in preparing for a fight, the ex-sailor said he knew many fighters who would smoke two packages of cigarettes in the dressing-room before a match and not suffer from short-winded-ness. Sharkey's idea of having a good time after a fight is just relaxing and eating a lot of pie, cake, and ice-cream. When he is training, if he feels a craving for non-training table food, Sharkey will take a bit of pie, or a drink of milk rather than let himself worry. Hunting...
Thus ended the State's strangest election. The appeal to the voters by both the Republican and the Democratic candidate was that he had been State head of the American Legion. Republican Haucke made known that he did not smoke, drink, chew or go to dances. Democrat Woodring made known that he was an expert crocheter. Political enemies even went so far as to claim he once won a county crocheting prize. His history: born in Neodesha, Kan., into a family of several sisters, served in the War, became a Neodesha bank cashier, resigned to run for the governorship...
...does the press of the world countenance so many lies?" asked Voroshilov, and Stalin said, "They want to make the world think the Soviets started this counter-revolutionary trial [TIME, Nov. 24] as a smoke-screen to hide our supposed starvation, unrest and what...
European smokers last week attentively read press despatches announcing that the German dye trust had developed a combustible called bonalin for lighters. Bonalin, said the news, would not smoke, smell or explode. The new fuel comes in a tube, like toothpaste. When squeezed into the lighter it becomes a clear combustible liquid...