Word: smoked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fiercely competitive marketplace, it prizes competence and rewards brilliance. It refuses to let a man take off his shirt in a park, carry a gun or smoke in the subway, but it doesn't care if he practices Buddhism, wears a pink shirt or marries and divorces six blondes...
Outmoded? But new problems and unfinished old ones rushed in on him. The piers need modernization. The city needs a new subway line under Second Avenue; its old lines and underground stations are in ramshackle disrepair. Problems of smoke control, traffic control, street cleaning await solution...
...tested a group of psychology students with a "finger tronometer" (his own invention), which measures the trembling of an outstretched human finger. First he measured the students' "finger tremor" before they started smoking. Then he let each of them smoke half a cigarette, and measured their tremor again. The fingers of the hardened smokers, he found, had increased their trembling 39%. Students who had never smoked before were hardly affected...
...inhalers, and tested them again. The non-inhalers showed no significant increase in finger tremor. But the fingers of the inhalers trembled like aspen leaves: 82% more than before they began the cigarette. Cigar and pipe inhalers reacted the same way too. Moral: if you like to smoke but not to tremble, don't inhale...
...American custom of whittling sticks." Shells and bullets began to hiss and whine once more; but in his Gettysburg garden Sallie Broadhead's husband doggedly "picked a mess of beans . . . [and] persevered until he had picked all, for he declared the Rebels should not have one." Soon, the smoke of battle grew so thick that gawking young