Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...title of world's No. i dirigible. Prime aeronautical innovations are the first Diesel engines ever installed in an airship. Huge Daimler Benz V-8's made of a secret, lightweight alloy, they occupy four gondolas placed far back on the hull, leave a feathery wake of smoke as they shove the ship ahead at a maximum of 85 m.p.h. Only other projection through the smooth, silvery fabric of the Hindenburg's bag is the small control cabin near...
Their jury-room debate was not unpleasant because: 1) it gave them an opportunity to talk after eight silent days during which they had to ask their questions in writing; 2) they were allowed to smoke on the Senate floor, a privilege they enjoy at no other time. For two days Judge Ritter and his lawyers fretted nervously in an anteroom...
...Godship they had imposed upon him. Still a practicing Theosophist seer who affects soft, open-collared shirts and flannel slacks, Krishnamurti, now nearing 40, has not lost his persuasive ways. Author Landau says he felt such personal pleasure at meeting Krishnamurti that he permanently lost all desire to smoke...
...soon had enough capital to go, like Drake, into piracy on a large scale. Unlike Drake, however, who tried merely to spoil the Spaniards, Ralegh had colonizing ambitions. His most famed colony, on which he never set foot, was Virginia. Thence he imported and did his best to popularize smoking tobacco. (Biographer Thompson sets down as apocryphal the story of Ralegh's alarmed servant, who seeing smoke coming from his" master's mouth! dashed a bucket of water over him.) He spent ?40,000 trying to get Virginia started, finally handed it over to a London company...
...hard-hitting, smoke infested meeting in University Hall last night the Student Council thrashed out and adopted one-half of their new constitution; the second part will be considered next Wednesday; then will come a 30-day wait before final adoption during which time undergraduates may enter their objections...