Word: tars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From 1930 to 1952, complained Lowe, he smoked more than two packs of cigarettes a day. Then he got cancer. His right lung was removed at the very time when, at nearby Barnes Hospital, Drs. Evarts Graham and Ernest Wynder were doing experiments on mice with tobacco tar (TIME, Nov. 30). In suing (for breach of warranty) the four companies whose brands he said he had smoked and the chain store where he bought them,* Lowe said that he had "accepted the defendants' public assurances that their cigarettes were free from harmful substances...
...community that has reared the "Spreading Chestnut Tree," Election Oak, Whitefield Elm and Rebellion Tree would not let the Washington Elm go to the dogs. As it grew old, Cambridge doctored the tree with tar and splints. In 1874, one resident wrote, "its crippled branches swathed in bandages, its scars where, after holding aloft for a century their outstretched arms, limb after limb has fallen nerveless and decayed." The molting season was on, and lasted until 1923, when a workman, while removing a dead branch, pulled down the Elm with...
...simple relationship, because no factor that causes cancer of the lung has yet been found in tobacco tar, and some of the increase in lung cancer is probably due to other things, such as atmospheric pollution...
...Smiley, 300 miles northwest of Regina. Smiley's meager population has more than tripled, from 105 to 350, in the past four months. Roomers are bedded down on cots in the corridors of the town's only hotel. New streets have been laid out, lined with tar-paper shacks and auto trailers. A third classroom will be opened this week for the winter term in the Smiley schoolhouse...
...catches of Fashion-Hunter Schnurer-the results of a three-week trip to Turkey last summer-went on sale in Manhattan and Los Angeles. Priced from $14.95 to $65, her 1954 line of winter resort clothes includes simple but smartly styled bathing suits, jackets, blouses and dresses decorated with tar-booshed figures and such Turkish zigzags as designs copied from the ceremonial rug of a Turkish emir and from wrought-iron grillwork that she spotted in Istanbul...