Word: piped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plane down on a field where none thought he could dare to land. The first land plane in history has settled on the soil of British Honduras. He lunches with Governor John Burdon, eating Honduran grapefruit. Public holiday is declared. Col. Lindbergh tinkers anxiously over a broken air pipe, minor mid-air accident to the hitherto uncannily flawless mechanism of The Spirit...
...sewer assessments soared. Taxpayers grumbled, politicians muttered about graft, but nothing was done until the past Autumn when Lawyer Henry H. Klein, representing a group of Queens taxpayers, charged that $8,000,000 had been "wasted" by the Queens sewer builders. It developed that the only kind of sewer pipe that would meet Chief Engineer Rice's specifications was a patented product for which one John M. Phillips, good friend of President Connolly's, had the sole sales agency in Queens...
Inventor Sperry also described a compressed air barrage which might have made diving possible during the rough weather. "You take a pipe, perforate it with holes, let it down about 30 feet and then pump air through it at high pressure. The bubbles break up the waves over a limited area of ocean, and it seems to me that the Navy could have continued its rescue work behind that barrage. . . . The Standard Oil Company has done...
...Philadelphia last week, Pianist Joseph Hofmann dedicated a new hall for the Curtis Institute of Music. Mrs. Edward W. Bok gave the money for the building, established besides an endowment fund of $12,500,000. Hidden from sight in the gray and white auditorium is a $50,000 pipe-organ given by Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, father...
...Hamilton, smoking his pipe in the Maine woods, writes with a clear equanimity the history of tobacco use and summarizes lightly the arguments for and against...