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Word: spits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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American Tobacco. Production of Lucky Strikes in January showed an increase of 14½ times the total increase registered for all brands. Cremo (Spit is a horrid word) is being produced at the rate of 1,110,000 a day. When American Tobacco's George Washington Hill took over the active management of American Cigar Co. last May only 93,000 Cremos were being made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Tobacco | 3/17/1930 | See Source »

Have just read "Criminal Glands" in your Feb. 17 issue. Recall another article about bulldogs suffering from undersecretion of pituitary in a former issue. Why not let your gullible readers know why Nero fiddled while Rome burned, why one of Proust's characters got a kick while another spit on her grandfather's picture, and of course why "Alvy Siawaski Suffers?" Then you could have some doctor work out statistics on why ''lovely lady stoops to folly" and graduate into a metaphysical aspect and prove that we are all foreordained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 10, 1930 | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

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