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Word: smokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...later years wearied of Fu. His last book on Fu (Emperor Fu Manchu) will appear posthumously, fulfilling a prophecy that Fu once whispered to Rohmer's inflamed imagination: "It is your belief that you have made me; it is mine that I shall live when you are smoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 15, 1959 | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

...legal like the other cigarette companies. Every year I'd plow back one percent of the gross inta advertising . . . Girl sittin in a swing-lots of flowers an things aroun her indicating she is accustom to the better things life offers-an under it it say-I smoke Poincianas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jungle Book | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

...microscopic amount of it gets into the human body it causes dreadful damage. Exposed to air, it oxidizes quickly, and the oxide floats off as a deadly, impalpable dust. If it is machined in air, the shavings burst spontaneously into flame, giving off clouds of deadly smoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Problem Fuels | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

...political stage managers who are using him to inspire and excite the crowd. To the conspirators, Angelo is a mere straw man whose ultimate "destiny is to be burned. "All that is asked of him," says a plump rebel plotter named Bon-dino, "is to make a lot of smoke . . . under cover of which we can get to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The World's a Stage | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

Greatest casualty of the fire was an estimated $8500 worth of cigar and tobacco products of the famed tobacconists, since the Pure Food and Drug Act forbids sale of any products possibly contaminated by smoke. Bolter & Co., adjoining Leavitt and Peirce reported no damage despite the heavy outpouring of smoke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tobacco Shop Smoke Attracts 25 Firemen Attracts 25 Firemen | 5/22/1959 | See Source »

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