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Word: smokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...According to police, the march had been planned the day before by William Z. Foster, No. 1 U. S. Communist whose Trade Union Unity League embraces the National. According to strikers, the deputies started firing without warning. Throwing rocks, the miners stood their ground for 15 min. When the smoke cleared away, twelve strikers, including a woman, lay wounded and groaning in the roadway. A man named Peter Zigaric was killed. Forty-one of his comrades were arrested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: In the Pittsburgh Area | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

Mustafa Kemal Pasha has taken the fez off Turkey's head, put on a hat instead; but even Dictator Kemal has not put a briar pipe in Turkey's mouth. Turks still smoke (at home or in coffee houses) the romantic, long-tubed, bubble-bubbling nargile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Hubble-Bubble | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

Advantage of a hubble-bubble: the smoke is cooled, filtered and (if desired) perfumed by being sucked through plain (or perfumed) water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Hubble-Bubble | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

...inconveniences of smoke and commerce were annoying to the medical school and Lakeside Hospital. The two institutions ought to move, decided Mr. Mather. to the east, like the rest of the city. He guided them to a $5,000,000 area adjoining Western Reserve University and Case School of Applied Science. First he built a Medical School with his own money. That was finished in 1924. Then he got help to build schools of Nursing, Pharmacy and Dentistry, the Medical Library, Babies & Children's Hospital, Maternity Hospital, Rainbow Hospital (for crippled children), and an Institute for Pathology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cleveland's Centre | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

SANCTUARY My Land is bare of chattering folk; The clouds arc low along the ridges, And sweet's the air with curly smoke From all my burning bridges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Parting Kicker | 6/15/1931 | See Source »

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