Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chancellor Bowman met the three pedagogs in the University Club. First thing he did was to take them outdoors and point to a beautiful Gothic skyscraper rising through the city's smoke from the University campus. That skyscraper is Pitt's Cathedral of Learning, whose exterior is done but whose interior awaits the raising of more millions. As the four men walked up the hill toward it, the pale, intense, esthetic Chancellor told his companions what the Cathedral means to him. It was his vision; it is his life work; it will be his monument. To build...
...lodge on his father's farm at Berwyn Heights, Md., Douglas Schall, son of Minnesota's blind Senator Thomas David Schall, was poring late over his Georgetown University law books. Sniffing smoke, he looked out the window of his second-story room, saw flames licking up from a garage on the ground floor. Douglas pulled on a bathrobe, yelled "Fire" at his sleeping younger brother Richard, stumbled downstairs with Richard after him. While Douglas & Richard drove out two of the seven cars in the garage, a Negro servant crawled through a window to rescue a Scotch terrier they...
...Carbon, Ind. (pop. 476), the postmaster protested that railway mail clerks have not been throwing the Carbon mail off the train. The mail clerks explained that when the wind is from the northwest it blows the locomotive smoke in the mail coach door and they cannot see Carbon...
Flagpole-painter and steeplejack extraordinary, George B. Drew deliberately expelled a cloud of cigarette smoke from his mouth...
Physiologists agree that smoking does no more harm to a woman than to a man, if harm there be. According to many investigators, the only circumstances under which a woman should not smoke are while she has anesthetic gas in her lungs (she might explode), and while she produces milk for her baby. Milk drains from the blood of a smoking mother those smoke ingredients which please her, but may not agree with her nursling...