Word: smoked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This means that if Roxas gets four hours sleep a night (which I doubt), he must smoke one cigaret every twelve minutes. With six hours sleep (conceivable), he must smoke one cigaret every 10.8 minutes, and with eight hours sleep he puffs away a cigaret every 9.6 minutes...
...petition? By what right does it limit the powers of proposing and ratifying amendments to its own membership? Merely because 17 members of a Student Council guessed that these provisos were equitable ten years ago? Even then they were not convinced. Reports claim that these back-room sessions were "smoke-filled and heated." But while the document lay on a table in Phillips Brooks House for thirty days, waiting for someone to raise an objection (which would have caused further discussion, but still no student vote), Harvard was too absorbed in the Tercentenary Celebration to worry about a Student Council...
...selling technique keeps the story moving with carefree charm. But it's brutal on the tunes. Of all eight new Kern melodies (including the already popular All Through the Day and In Love in Vain), not one sounds good enough to compete with Ol' Man River or Smoke Gets in Your Eyes...
...Morrison Hotel one morning last week the members of the Cook County Democratic Committee were in their seats by 10 o'clock. They were there to witness the beginning of the end of a political dynasty. As they waited, the room grew rank and grey with smoke and politicians' talk. Three quarters of an hour late, the Boss-Mayor Edward J. Kelly- strode in. The committeemen put down their racing forms and clapped...
Farmer George Boeshore looked up. The big four-motored, shark-bodied plane had passed & repassed over his father's farm all day, practicing landings at the nearby Reading, (Pa.) airport. But this time something was wrong. A plume of black smoke trailed from the plane, then burst into red flame. Farmer Boeshore saw the big craft drop into a glide and head for the field two miles away...