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Word: smokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brown: "How many degrees of a circle graph would you shade to show that 10% of all men in the Army smoke some form of tobacco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Quiz Flunked | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...House was only two-thirds full. M.P.s trickled in as Abbott started to read his 14,000-word speech. As he recited the hard facts of the nation's financial life, his voice got flat and toneless. More & more M.P.s left the chamber for a smoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: Tough to Take | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...citizens now smoke a billion cigarettes a day, according to the calculations of the Federation of Tax Administrators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, May 24, 1948 | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...Smoke. Britain, which has been out of the tobacco market, bought 90,000,000 Ibs. of surplus tobacco from a North Carolina growers' cooperative. It hoped to pay for other tobacco purchases with EGA cash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facts & Figures, May 17, 1948 | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...text closely through heavy, horn-rimmed glasses. Occasionally he emphasized a point with a characteristic twist of his head to the right. As he droned on for 87 minutes, M.P.s dozed (one Liberal backbencher had to be awakened by a messenger), or padded out to the lobbies for a smoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: EXTERNAL AFFAIRS: New Credo | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

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