Word: smoked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York last week Hearstmen worried about another fire which burned 1,500 tons of paper in the building where the Journal & American is published. Rewrite men stuck to their desks on the sixth floor, wrote the story with wet handkerchiefs dangling over their eyes to keep out the smoke...
...improving turnpike roads, founding schools and chapels, was hated for espousing the cause of the upstart American colonies. Bit by bit the Wedgwoods disposed of their land, until a bare five-acre plot on which the plant still stands was jostled by other potteries, mines, factories. Neighbors' smoke marred the fine finish of glazed Wedgwood ware; sapping shafts of a nearby coal mine made Wedgwood ovens sink two feet; Hanley's congestion, for which Critic Lewis Mumford damned the place as a "non-city" (TIME, April 18), blocked Wedgwood expansion. So the firm bought a wooded 400-acre...
...hours a day for weeks at a stretch. His shock of water-spaniel hair is greying but he still looks young at 37. Coffee with lots of sugar instead of alcohol for a bracer is one of his rules, though he does drink sociably. He doesn't smoke. Girls have no part in his life, or he successfully conceals the fact. Of his secretary, pretty, red-headed Peggy Dowd with sparkling blue eyes, he says. "God bless her, she's a wonder!" because she can match his working pace...
...write it down on paper. Now, thanks to recording machines, music can be engraved directly on the surface of wax discs, preserved as permanently as sculpture. The best swing music is not written down; it is improvised. Before the phonographic era, improvisation was as impermanent as a cloud of smoke. Today the woodnotes wild of Benny Goodman's clarinet can be made as durable as a Chopin nocturne, and copies can be distributed by the thousands...
...Oregon's Deschutes County last week, forest patrolmen, investigating a puff of smoke in the woods, found a hot meteorite imbedded in a tree. They described it as ''the size of a ten-quart water pail." Latest reports: no sale...