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Word: smokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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This sector handles a major portion Smith trade and of her greatest importance constitutes what Times Squares is to New York perhaps because this cannot in many places, smith girls smokes heavily. Since they like to smoke and study, they seek refuge in the four refuge that extend along Green Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Green Street Shops Serve as Canteens, Meeting Places and General Supply Line | 4/12/1951 | See Source »

Many a student has her favorite and reserved studying spot in a rear both of one of the eating places. All during the morning, the counters and booths are jammed with people who want to read a hit between classes and who want to smoke. These restaurant scholars have also learned to concentrate with a most incredible hullabaloo going on around them. Indeed they become so accustomed to noise they cannot concentrate without...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Green Street Shops Serve as Canteens, Meeting Places and General Supply Line | 4/12/1951 | See Source »

...incline was steep. As the wheels of the two locomotives spun on the slippery rails, smoke poured from the stacks, swirled about the passengers. In the caboose, still sticking out of the tunnel, a brakeman heard strange noises coming from the freight cars ahead, realized something was terribly wrong, ran back down the track to Balvano. When he arrived, Assistant Stationmaster Giuseppe Salonia-told by the next station that 8017 had not arrived-was trying to figure out where the train could be. Rescuers rushed to the tunnel in a locomotive. From inside came the sound of the stalled engines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Death Train | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

Alvarez does not prescribe diets for old people except in cases of absolute necessity (e.g., diabetes, severe gout, swelling of the legs). In general, he believes in letting oldsters, whether healthy or ill, eat, smoke and drink what they like. He told of two middle-aged women who brought their spry, neat, 80-year-old father in to see him. Another doctor had found a little high blood pressure, and had deprived the old boy of his pipe, his bedtime highball, his red meat, his table salt, his puttering in the garden and his strolls around town. The father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Prescription for Dying | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

...Weary, angry Socialists had to stand by steadfastly, not knowing when the Tories would demand a vote. The Tories organized their M.P.s into squads of 50, moved them into the chamber in relays, rested them in smoke rooms and bars, marshaled their total strength only when they intended to force a division. "It's a war of attrition," complained one Socialist sufferer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Siege Tactics in Commons | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

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