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Word: smokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Noteworthy it was that the guest list to the French Government's banquet for the visiting Nazi diplomats did not include the names of Jean Zay, Minister of National Education, and Georges Mandel, Minister of Colonies, both Jews. Minister of Marine Cesar Campinchi, denouncing the pact as a "smoke-screen," returned his invitation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Hatchet Buried? | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

Outside, patches of tin show where he has removed boards for use in his tunnel. In the summers he worked on a ranch to get money for more tunneling. For clothing he used garments discarded by other prospectors, patched them with flour sacking. He does not smoke or chew, but takes a nip of wine occasionally. He has never, he says, been lonely. Once he came stumbling into the shack of a neighbor, shaking and bloody. "Bad cave in," he said. "Nearly got me that time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Black Mountain Tunnel | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...Angeles last week was neither a sign of the wrath of God nor a wholesale cremation. A feature of the Southern California climate rarely mentioned by that city's energetic Chamber of Commerce is the peculiar haze visible on most autumn days. The haze is caused by smoke from fires in the dry. scrubby brush that grows as much as eight feet high over the sandy hills behind the city. Brush fires, unlike real forest fires, are easily extinguished and rarely do much more than annoy the mountain rabbits and keep CCC boys out of trouble. Sometimes, however, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hollywood Holocaust | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...damage, on the movie industry was that three studios had to stop shooting for one afternoon-one because some hired elephants got restless, two because smoke dimmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hollywood Holocaust | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...scene was a smoke-filled dining hall; the principal characters an ex-senator from Pennsylvania and a well-known, young liberal from New York; the occasion, an election to the Party Executive Committee. Supposedly because he attempted a "mercenary alliance with the American Labor Party" the liberal, Kenneth Simpson, was defeated; in his place ex-senator Hastings, a man so conservative as to make Herbert Hoover appear

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MATTER OF SPOTS | 12/3/1938 | See Source »

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