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Word: smoked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winston Churchill looked at the newsmen, chewed at his cigar, belched smoke, said nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mr. Prime Minister! | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

...Prime Minister! Mr. Prime Minister!" I.N.S. Correspondent James Kilgallen was asking a question: "How many cigars do you smoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mr. Prime Minister! | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

Winston Churchill belched smoke, got up from his barrel of political TNT, and answered. "That depends," he said, "on how big they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mr. Prime Minister! | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

...taken the air; twelve were confirmed destroyed, twelve were probables. The Jap home air force's most resolute opposition had failed to prevent a single U.S. element reaching its target. By the time the last bomber left, the afternoon sun had been blotted from Yawata's mills. Smoke was so dense that bomb bursts from the last planes could not be seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Two First Teams | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

...electronic device, called the precipitron, which removes all dust and smoke from the kitchen air by drawing it into a duct, where dirt particles are given a positive electric charge and deposited on a negatively charged plate. In smoky Pittsburgh tests the device extended the curtain laundering interval from 2-3 weeks to 8-10 weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Kitchen Front | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

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