Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opportunity to come up, smoke and browse around among the many illustrated books and magazines, and get to know the instructors, is what is-really offered to the interested student...
...things happened. The Japanese power-dived upon Nanking, Chinese anti-aircraft guns on the hills around the capital opened up, and reserve Chinese pursuit fighters took the air, climbing to tear like clawing condors at the Japanese bombers' flanks. The Japanese wing leader signaled with a puff of smoke, all his following bombers let go their loads and zoomed upward to get away, but by a freak four Japanese craft were downed at the same instant, belched smoke and plunged earthward like meteors, streaming flames...
...Berlin acrid yellowish smoke billowed last week around the Hindenburg Palace in which visiting Benito Mussolini was to be a guest. Bombing planes chased by pursuit ships streaked across the sky, anti-aircraft guns chattered, the entire Wilhelmstrasse quarter of government buildings disappeared in the thick smoke of fake bombs, and subject to severe fines was any citizen of Berlin who did not dive like a rabbit into the bombproof shelter nearest him. Black streamers were plastered about liberally to indicate "DESTRUCTION" and afternoon papers spoke of the bombing fleet as "RED." Thus last week German minds were prepared...
...wanted to take a military aide to the U. S. with him, he invited a group of West Point-trained Filipino officers to dine. When their U. S. training caused them to forget their native manners so far as to fail to light President Quezon's after-dinner smoke, he decided to go to the U. S. without military escort. By last week, all Manila knew that President Quezon was really prepared to consider Commissioner McNutt as Boss. On the occasion of his homecoming call, he graciously lighted the McNutt cigaret...
There still exists a good deal of controversy about how evolution works, but even old Sir Edward cannot remember back to the time when the evolution process itself was attacked by reputable scientists. However, smoke from the old battle of Lamarckism v. Natural Selection has not yet finally cleared. Lamarckism is the theory that acquired characteristics can be inherited, that some profit from experience can be passed on to succeeding generations as a sort of protoplasmal memory. Natural Selection holds that accidental variations which happen to be favorable to the organism will be preserved by the survival of the fittest...