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Word: snuffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...tobacco. Says FTC : 1 ) tobacco growers, warehousemen and auctioneers will praise any brand to win company good will; 2) each major cigaret producer pays more than the "average market price" for his cigaret tobacco, because that price is actually the average paid for all tobacco including chewing tobacco and snuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Cigaret Advertising | 7/12/1943 | See Source »

...that nice, shiny, green outhouse in the center of the Yard it sure looks as though there is going to be an urgent need for some mighty thin Platoon Leaders to get inside to give out orders over the new P. A. System or is it just a Snuff...

Author: By S. O. Melvin parnell, | Title: Flotsam and Jetsam | 5/14/1943 | See Source »

...EMPEROR'S SNUFF BOX-John Dickson Carr-Harper ($2). How a harassed and suggestible young Englishwoman was saved from almost certain conviction as the slayer of her fiance's father by the supershrewd deductions of Dr. Kinross, specialist in criminal psychology. A brilliant exercise in detecting, a chilling adventure in careful, cold-blooded villainy, a sterling bit of craftsmanship even though one important bit of evidence is held back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder in October, Nov. 2, 1942 | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

Yesterday's practice was scrimmageless, Harlow still being wary of Old Man injury. The squad was out through a long punting drill early in the afternoon, and Comeford gave indications of being as good a punter as headman Wally Flynn. Flynn was up to snuff, too, and the pair matched booming kicks for 15 minutes. Boston also shone in the drill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Comeford Gets Post In Shuffle of Team A | 10/7/1942 | See Source »

...unearthly moan, street lights all over Cambridge will go out, and Harvard's fourth test blackout will be under way. Defense plants will adjust their blackout shades, all night bean-cries will be darkened, and those solitary night-owls who are still up and about will have to snuff out their midnight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lights Out | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

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