Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difficult to learn that Philip Drinker, "assistant professor of ventilation and illumination at the Harvard School of Public Health" addressed an audience on Sunday at the Harvard Medical School and declared that "Boston is not a particularly smoky city," and "it is almost impossible to inhale coal smoke in sufficient amounts to be harmful...
...assistant professor in any school or kindergarten of public health. Boston is a particularly smoky city, and it is getting smokier every month. It is not as smoky as Pittsburg, but it is too smoky, and everybody except Assistant Professor Drinker and those responsible for the smoke are ready to say so and to prove...
...does not smoke or chew. When angered, he swears vigorously. His flashy temper quickly subsides. Once he taught Sunday school in Algona. A Congregationalist, he used to attend the same church as President Coolidge until the crowds drove him away...
...exquisitely, included the Mayor of Havre and something like a hundred Parisians who had come down to see what has happened to the liner Paris since fire gutted her at her dock. Her machinery and hull were unharmed, but delicate Louis XVI salons and cabins went up in curling smoke. They have not been replaced. Instead the Paris has been completely made over in the new style of Paris-L'Art modern, which U. S. citizens call "Modernist...
...discovered 29 years ago when a cowboy, one Jim White, saw what he thought was volcanic smoke. The "smoke" was the effect of flocks of bats emerging for their evening insect hunt. The Government made the cave site a National Monument seven years ago, marking off 720 acres. The underground halls spread farther than that; how far, Explorer Nicholson will try to learn...