Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...miles from Nanking 300 Chinese were surrounded atop a hill by Japanese who set fire to the long grass. It set fire to the trees, burned fiercely completely around the hill, slowly forcing the 300 Chinese to the top. There Japanese machine guns firing into the ring of fire & smoke, killed them almost...
...queer feeling we had when Virginia and I saw a Japanese plane burst in the air and disappear in a huge cloud of black smoke which in dissolving showed us tiny silver like pieces of the fuselage as they fluttered to earth...
...three Japanese soldiers struck by fragments and stumble haltingly," said Publisher George Bruce of the Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury. "There was a burst of blue-black smoke. The parade broke for a distance of 100 yards. For a moment everything was quiet. Then the Japanese soldiers began scattering to both sides of the street. The exact time...
...many cigar stores. Dr. Thorndike's explanation is that in the good town people practice small vices instead of big ones. "When tobacco was discovered, people who had been flogging slaves and watching bear fights began to get enjoyment instead from a quiet smoke." But many drug stores are a bad sign. Dr. Thorndike thinks this is true because an inferior town buys many patent medicines and cosmetics...
When he was derricked over the side of the Coast Guard cutter Antietam last week, his lines fouled at 200 ft. and he was brought back. Next time he got all the way down without difficulty. "Holy smoke," he yelled into his telephone, "I'm on the bottom." It was so dark that he could not see six inches. When he was hoisted back on board, the only thing that bothered him was cold feet...