Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tanks advanced, smashing through frail adobe huts like mastodons treading upon eggshells. French 75's spotted the heights, and sent fragments of the rocky butte, deadly as shrapnel, splintering among the Moorish tribesmen. The whole mountain, which is topped by the stronghold village of Bribane, was enveloped by the smoke of burning crops and villages and the fumes of exploding shells. Armored cars and cavalry advanced up the easier slopes, while battalion after battalion of infantry stormed the steep western salient like a rising tide, preceded by a deadly, frothing foam of shrapnel...
...college students do not study is because 85 percent of the faculty do not know how to teach them, the remedy does not lie in the entrance examination. My impression is that most of the harping on the need of making the way into college more difficult is a smoke screen behind which members of college faculties are concealing their inability to impart to others the knowledge and interest they possess in the subjects which they profess. They are, of course, quite justified in doing this if the college exists, as some seem to think, for the sake...
...late Vice President Marshall, when asked what the nation's most urgent need was, replied, as everyone knows: "A good 5-cent cigar!" Many tobacconists and tobacco consumers have agreed with him. The rise of wages and material prices during the War rendered the former "popular-priced smoke" much more expensive. The result was a drastic curtailment in consumption. In 1917, over 8 billion cigars were consumed in this country. By 1921, the 5-cent cigar had disappeared, and consumption of cigars declined to about 6¾ billion. Even yet, not quite 7 billion cigars are consumed each year...
...sure to take place within a few hours. After four days their emergency rations of beans, hardtack, dried bread, chocolate, were exhausted. A merchant steamer hove into sight, insubstantial as a silhouette cut out of blue paper. The PN9 sent up furious signals. The ship dwindled to a smoke, vanished. The airplane's radio operator picked up a message which stated that at a conference of pilots on the U. S. S. Langley it was unanimously agreed that the PN9 No. 1 and its crew were lost. "That made me angry," said he. Commander Rodgers fashioned a sail...
...occupant will be permitted to smoke on the premises. All occupants must buy at least $500 worth of stock, and sign the pledge. No Sunday newspapers will be read in any of the 4,500 bedrooms...