Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...longer a central agency to supervise storing the books, and only in the rarest instances are students awake to the possibility of protesting their grade and demanding a check, especially when the summer exodus has taken place. Thus the tradition of not returning blue books has become a smoke-screen behind which teachers may hide in order to avoid discussing grades with the few earnest individuals who inevitably return to find out why they...
...resort to open intervention, and the rout of international morality is made complete, Great Britain and her satellite France are to blame. No greater blow could have been dealt the Spanish Republic, and the front of constitutional democracies in general, than the non-intervention pact which raised the ideal smoke screen behind which Hitler and Mussolini could do their work...
Colonel McCormick was evidently touched. His answer was: "Holy smoke! If you want me that bad I'll come...
John E. Giles '37, one of the active participants, said that he and Robert F. Meyers '39 were walking down Bow Street from the H.A.A. shortly after 10 o'clock when they saw smoke pouring out of a window of the house...
...throatful of smoke from the flares of red fire that were burning on the driveway and excused himself. Back to the dining room he went with his sons Franklin Jr. and John, to enjoy the job of tabulating his masterpiece...