Word: piped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beside Berlin's famed Avis Speedway one day last week, and listened to a lecture on rockets. The lecturer was Fritz von Opel, motor magnate. Beside him stood a little racing car with two unusual accessories. In its rear it had something that looked like an exaggerated exhaust pipe. This, explained Herr von Opel, was a chamber for the explosion of rockets, the car's only means of locomotion. The other feature was a pair of little wings like an airplane's, except that their pitch was inverted. These, said Herr von Opel, were not to make...
Another nap and the New York Evening Post occupy him before supper, at which from four to a dozen guests are present. In the evening he listens to music (there is a magnificent pipe organ at Pocantico), and plays a game called Numerica. No card advocate, he enjoys Numerica with its 52 chips, numbered from 1 to 13, with four of each number. The object of the game is to build four stacks of numbers from 1 to 13. It requires no little mathematical skill in marshalling the right chips at the right moment. Seldom has Mr. Rockefeller faced opponents...
...Pipe lines and plumbing do not necessarily produce pure water, warned Dr. Theobald Smith in his presidential address at the Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons (15 medical societies) meeting in Washington, D. C., last week. A pioneer of American bacteriology, he is unimpressed by the elaborate transportation facilities which conduct water from source to faucet. Said Bacteriologist Smith: "The sewage problem is unsolved. All we have done is to convert our water courses into open sewers, with occasional explosive outbreaks of intestinal disease as the result. The time is coming when the intimate relation between water supply and sewage...
...themselves and barring Sandino from entering such valuable territory. . . . My brothers and I are not in politics down there, and we have nothing to do with Wall Street. . . . From the meagre information I have the losses from looting our movable property may run to $100,000; but if the pipe line and mill plant have been destroyed the loss might run to $3,000,000 . . . and the owners would face ruin. ... I guess this is what comes of investing one's money in foreign countries...
...January, the trouble was soon put right. Last time it was a furnace pipe "gone flooey;" this time it was a blazing chimney. And, as in January, the men of Number Nine were well rewarded for their labors. Doffing helmets, wiping hands on shirt, they soon were regaled with coffee, sandwiches, perfectos, etc., etc., not to mention genial wisecracks and charming smiles, all served with a maximum of relish after the excitement by perhaps the most persuasive host and hostess in all U. S. politics-Speaker of the House and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth...