Word: smotheration
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...Francisco's Shamrock Club, Dancer Betty Blossom swirled onto the floor, swinging a pair of benzine torches. A drunk rose, foolishly pawed at Dancer Blossom. Up went her arm, up in flames went the flimsy papier-mache ceiling. When firemen fought their way in to smother the blaze, they found a Chinese cook, three orchestramen hidden in the icebox. Dead from flames and trampling were the hatcheck girl, a woman patron, two men. Torch-Dancer Blossom was arrested for violating San Francisco's fire laws...
Synthetic Atmospheres. Without oxygen animals smother; in pure oxygen they die also because of irritation and congestion in the lungs. Yet it must not be assumed that the best possible mixture for sustaining life is the natural atmospheric mixture of about 79% nitrogen, 20% oxygen and 1% other gases. After twelve years of smothering rats, monkeys and guinea pigs in various artificial atmospheres ranging from pure helium to nitrous oxide, Dr. John Willard Hershey of McPherson College reported that a mixture of 75% argon and 25% oxygen enabled the animals to get along as well as usual, that...
...function is to engage in exhaustive research work. At the moment, all its energies are directed toward the latter end. In theory, men are engaged for their teaching ability and their qualifications as research men. Actually, if a man has any teaching ability to begin with, he had best smother it at once if he expects to linger here much more than a year. Promotions come not as a reward for conscientious or even brilliant teaching, but as a guerdon for advancing the cause of science...
...smother noble ambition; to follow a worthy ideal is very fine indeed. But the highest aspirations must be tempered with reason, and a bit of advice offered in good faith should be accepted in good faith. When the meek assistant in Economics A or Government I barges into a basement room of the New Lecture Hall, slams the door, slaps his brief-case upon the desk, and whacks his hat on top of the brief-case, he does not produce the desired effect of exciting the admiration and awe of his class. Rather is the reaction one of perplexity...
Again the Harvard guards were responsible for much of the team's scoring, both Kollinites and Fletcher tallying six points. However, they were unable to smother Alf Bonniwell so well as before, and he romped about for a total of 11 counters...