Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moving pictures have also been planned, a Larry Semon comedy on "Golf", and another film entitled "Dog's Life". The Smoker Committee has made arrangements with a caterer to serve ginger ale and doughnuts, and has also secured tobacco and cigarettes. The smoker will probably be over by 9 o'clock...
...Pennsylvania State College, seven students have gallantly sacrificed themselves to "tobacco testing". Each of them will smoke thirty-six cigars, made of specimens grown on experimental farms, and report on the "burning quality, taste, aroma and character...
...important that they be safeguarded against an undue percentage of nicotine; and nowhere can guardians of the general welfare be so properly found as in the colleges. Even the Yale "Pest" would agree that none are better suited. But should this philanthropy be restricted to the comparatively innocuous luxury,--tobacco. No,--as any statesman would say,--a thousand times, no! The self-denial, the courage, the patriotism which inspired these students may be diverted to even more conspicuously beneficial uses...
...customs barrier is now working. The price of imported cigarettes advanced one shilling on each packet of 20, tobacco three pence an ounce. A great deal of inconvenience is reported by customs officials in dealing with the Ulster boundary customs, owing to the fact that one railway alone crosses the frontier at no less than ten different points...
...crew of the Shipping Board steamer West Helix smoked dried tea leaves instead of tobacco for two weeks. On a two-months' voyage from Antwerp to Boston, attended by gales and machinery trouble, they ran out of cigarettes and tobacco...