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Word: smokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When asked if he had anything to say about the honor conferred upon him, the popular professor laughed, said "I'm six feet three, don't smoke, and I don't use Pond's Vanishing Cream...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROF. MORIZE MADE OFFICER OF FRENCH LEGION OF HONOR | 4/25/1939 | See Source »

...salute with either hand. He can count up to ten on his fingers, bending each finger individually. By means of photoelectric cells equipped with color filters, he can tell red from green. He can talk and sing (by voice recordings played through an amplifier). He can suck smoke from a cigaret placed in his mouth, and exhale through his nostrils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New Talents | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

This Quakers found themselves lodged in the League cellar after the smoke had cleared away from last year's competition, and they are contemplating a big rise this spring. Colorful Frank Reagan, who will do the twirling today for the Carissmen, is one of the main reasons for Quaker optimism. Diven, Trexler, and Ogden are the big guns in the home team's attack, and these boys are primed to take full advantage of the short right field barrier on their ball park...

Author: By E. O. Cerf, Sports Editor, and Daily Princetonian, (SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CRIMSON)S | Title: HEALEY GIVES FOUR HITS AS STAHLMEN BEAT TIGERS 7 TO 0 | 4/22/1939 | See Source »

...others, who were not so pretty as their painted political ideas, dispelled all conservative fears that a contest of postoffice or "goldfish gobbling" was about to begin. For almost six hours, Littauer was converted into a gigantic safety valve for youth and all its fears and ideas. Smoke-filled rooms, hushed giggles, and overflowing ash trays gave signs through the night that the conference was still there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AUTHORITY AND MINORITY REPORTS | 4/18/1939 | See Source »

Some people are wont to consider such fire and smoke as dangerous to democratic procedure. Others cough and cry a little and move on their blithesome way. But there is still another group that knows that conferences come and students may go but arguments go on forever. This group represents the advance guard of any community. It knows that smoke, fire and noise can be something as useful as they are dangerous. It realizes that nothing embryonic is a success or failure. It knows that indifference has never won any battles and that debate is healthy as long...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AUTHORITY AND MINORITY REPORTS | 4/18/1939 | See Source »

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