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Word: smokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Syracuse's production of the short Tennessee Williams play Summer and Smoke rounds out the list of plays presented. Syracuse merits the distinction of bringing the festival's best actress, a young lady named Francesca Trantum...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: Yale Drama Festival | 4/13/1957 | See Source »

...Heaven. Over the years, the Teamsters' Boss Beck has labored mightily to achieve a standing of eminent respectability. Unlike his goon-squad lieutenants, he does not smoke, drink, play cards, shoot pool, follow the horses or bestow nylons indiscreetly. Beck and his Teamsters spend lavishly for civic and political purposes, e.g., a cool $1,000,000 pledged to the City of Hope Medical Center near Los Angeles, and (according to McClellan committee testimony) about $500,000 to defeat a right-to-work referendum in Washington State last year. With the notable exception of Washington's ex-Republican Governor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Dave & the Green Stuff | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

...Cigarette smoking is indeed a major cause of lung cancer. The risk increases with the amount smoked, averages five to 15 times greater (on half a pack a day or more) than among nonsmokers, is 27 times greater for those who smoke two packs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Smoking & Cancer (Contd.) | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

...smoking of tobacco, particularly in the form of cigarettes, is an important health hazard," the seven experts conclude. "The evidence of a cause-effect relationship [with lung cancer] is adequate for considering the initiation of public-health measures." But the group suggests no such measures. Instead, it urges more research to find the cancer-causing substance in smoke, and a simultaneous effort to remove it even before it is chemically identified. Possible answers to the problem: selection of tobacco strains, extracting the offending substance from the leaves or filtering it out of the smoke. Most of today's filters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Smoking & Cancer (Contd.) | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

...Monday, Sam Smith envelopes himself in a cloud of cigar smoke and makes pertinent comments concerning the latest releases on JAZZ...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jazz: Best in Boston | 3/23/1957 | See Source »

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