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Word: smokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...kind of explosion that occasionally shatters the peace & quiet of a U.S. campus. A popular teacher had been fired, students picketed in his defense, and in the flame and smoke of controversy it soon became hard to tell who was right, or what the shooting was about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Bung & the Trough | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

Last week Brookhaven meteorologists started shooting harmless oil smoke from a 420-ft. tower on the laboratory grounds. Meteorologists were assigned to trace the smoke and note just where it went and how quickly it dissipated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Trial by Smoke | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

Where There's Smoke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Petard Fills Coop With Smoke, Cops | 10/16/1948 | See Source »

...smoke-bomb apparently had been hidden behind a row of books on a shelf some time before it went off. Workers in the department had seen no one near the shelf when or immediately before the bomb detonated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Petard Fills Coop With Smoke, Cops | 10/16/1948 | See Source »

...sofa was reduced to ashes by the flames, and the rest of it was badly stained by smoke and sulphuric acid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Firemen Quell Blaze at Lowell House | 10/16/1948 | See Source »

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