Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond wandered along his favorite path beside the Charles River last evening and reflected on the possibilities of a beautiful Harvard if grass and God were allowed half a chance. In the smoke of autumn some of the grossness of the Harvard architecture was lost and the fire warden's caboose atop Eliot almost disappeared in mist. A few blades of grass between the Houses would have reduced their architectural wranglings...
...have of getting very far by making this the football of politics and politicians. And without meaning to question anybody's sincerity, I may be permitted to wonder whether gentlemen who discourse so extravagantly and so passionately on the subject are not really laying down a barrage or smoke screen with which they hope to hide other issues?such, for example, as Prohibition?about which they may not think it politically wise to speak so boldly...
...smirked St. Gandhi. "I neither smoke nor drink. Besides, being an advocate of nonviolence. I never carry firearms...
...another S-6B to attack Orlebar's world speed record. With a diving start from 1,400 ft. down to about 150 ft., he flashed six times back & forth over a straight- away of about 1.8 mi. The crowds saw only a speck with a tail of smoke. When it was over the stopwatches showed an average of 379.05 m. p. h. On one lap Lieut. Stainforth's time had been 388.6, faster than man had ever flown, more than eight times faster than the winner of the first Schneider race...
...experts superintended every move of the delicate operation that will convert the Utah into the Navy's greatest experiment in radio-controlled warships. When the work is completed the Utah will carry not a man, but will steer herself, steam at slow speeds and fast, maneuver, lay down smoke screens - all directed by a distant destroyer. Only thing she will not do is fire her guns...