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Word: smokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...breaks up a cold quickly too when your lungs aren't all congested, added the other. They paused after their coffee and stared at one another intently. You're looking better, said the one. Yes, and you look healthier, too, agreed his partner, glancing at a friend blowing smoke rings at the next table. The other looked too. Yes, it's better this way, he said without conviction. They exchanged understanding looks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...thirds of the women teachers never smoke, more than half never drink.* More than a third of the men do not smoke, nearly one-half are teetotalers, only 1% drink every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fit to Teach | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...homes but they were attached to old coal furnaces for less than $500 in 1926, $275 now. They conveyed the coal mechanically from the coal bin to the furnace, and because they fed it in beneath the fire instead of dumping it on top, there were few ashes, little smoke, and customers got more heat for their money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Inconsistent Firemen | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...Chicago moppets by walking along the city streets in a Persian shepherd's coat and peaked Astrakhan hat. He goes to tea in a frock coat, striped trousers, blue shirt and yellow shoes, wears the same shoes with tails to the opera. Because the uni versity forbids smoking in classrooms, he holds his seminars at home, where he can smoke his big-bowled, curved-stem pipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Traveling Man | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

Where wine flag catches the sunset Sparse chimneys smoke in the cross light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Contra Naturam | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

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