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Word: piped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...asked the Lord what to do when a white-trash gentleman built a house on her land and was going to make her tear down her cabin?who got a sign from the Lord, and burnt that house to white fine ashes, such as fell out of her corncob pipe when she prayed. There is Killdee who ploughed on Green Thursday?Ascension Day?the day Jesus went back to God, wherefore he expected to be scourged, and was, for that night his little girl, Baby Rose, was burnt to death in the cookfire. After that Killdee hated God. Vengeance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ireland's Darling | 9/29/1924 | See Source »

...rigor and brilliance of glass, the lustre of amber from the Isles. Poetically, it is a resin formed from equal parts of phenol and formaldehyde, in the presence of a 'base, pipe stems, fountain pens, billiard balls, telephone fixtures, cas- tanets, radiator caps, etc. In liquid form, it is a varnish. Jellied, it is a glue. Those familiar with its possibilities claim that in a few years it will be embodied in every mechanical facility of modern civilization. From the time that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Ithaca | 9/22/1924 | See Source »

...sion as to who made money out of it is the order of the day. Chief among those mentioned is W. C. Durant, onetime automobile manufacturer and inveterate bull speculator in stocks. Mr. Durant is said to have been the chief beneficiary in the meteoric rise of Cast Iron Pipe, to the tune of about $2 million. He is also said to have carried 25,000 shares of Southern Railway from the 30's to the 50's, as well as to have had heavy operations in Savage Arms and Missouri Pacific preferred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: W. C. Durant | 9/22/1924 | See Source »

...fortnight ago, General Dawes stood in the wet outside the Coolidge homestead at Plymouth, Vt., posed with his famed pipe for the benefit of patient photographers. Before the cameras clicked, he made a remark. Three Manhattan dailies recorded that remark thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: THE PRESS: Expurgated | 9/8/1924 | See Source »

Henry Ford recently took 10,000 tons of fine finished sheets. Cast iron pipe bookings are good; in the Chicago district they exceed output. Rail orders are also appearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Steel Improves | 9/8/1924 | See Source »

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