Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...frontpage story of Ohio's prison holocaust early last week. The Eagle's account was by the Associated Press. The most gruesome detail (in a description of the deaths of over 300 men by fire) which the Eagle permitted itself to print was this: "Fire and smoke both claimed the lives of the convicts who perished...
...railroads. Not only do they control 47.8% of the voting stock of Missouri Pacific, but it is now revealed that their Allegheny Corp. owns 20.8% of the voting shares of Kansas City Southern, often called ''the straightest railroad in the U.S." Just how much fire there is behind the smoke of recent Van Sweringen activities is question-of-the-moment among railroaders...
...slippery. . . . And you have no words which are dear to you." Clim is a precocious but unattractive child, becomes a clever but unattractive young man. He goes to the university at St. Petersburg, transfers to the university at Moscow, joins the kaleidoscopic crowd of young intellectuals, who drink, smoke, make love, talk, talk, talk. A sensualist, without strong affections, Clim tries to imagine himself in love with Lidia; he becomes her lover, is relieved not to have the affair end in marriage. There is no upshot to the story; with a description of the Exposition at Nizhni-Novgorod it comes...
...Elmhurst, Ill. Long-haired, lanky-limbed, seamed of face, he likes to recite poetry, sing folk songs, while he accompanies himself on his guitar. Says he: "Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." Other books: Chicago Poems, Corn Huskers,' The Chicago Race Riots, Smoke and Steel, Slabs of the Sunburnt West, Rootabaga Stones, Rootabaga-Pigeons, Abraham Lincoln-The Prairie Years, The American Songbag...
...Smoke abatement work," Dean Clifford said, "is to the engineer simply the application of sound and well-known engineering principles to the design and operation of the fuel-burning plants. Along this line, a member of the faculty of the Engineering School has had occasion to visit several boiler rooms in and about Boston with a view to inspecting the equipment, supervising alterations, and instructing the firemen...