Word: piped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Founded by the well-known Lieder-singer and Schubert authority, white-haired, pipe-smoking Reinhold von Warlich, London's new Schubert Society has met with extraordinary support from England's musical and social bigwigs. Patrons include two princesses, a sheaf of baronesses & countesses, illustrious scientists and world-renowned musicians. But the most interesting name on its letterheads is that of its president, Carola Geisler-Schubert, lifelong friend of Liedersinger von Warlich and granddaughter of Schubert's brother Ferdinand...
...island universes, each galaxy containing billions of stars-a discovery which may bear on the agitated question of whether the all-embracing Universe is expanding or not. Grey old Ernest W. Brown, professor emeritus of mathematics at Yale and a famed authority on the moon, who complacently smoked a pipe in violation of the Society's house rules, reported that the measurements of lunar motion which he started making a half-century ago have recently been rechecked with the help of modern calculating machines. Dr. Brown remarked with evident amusement that only two extremely slight errors had been found...
...theology which lank, twinkling-eyed, pipe-smoking Karl Barth has been preaching for nearly 20 of his 51 years is not, on its face, adapted to evangelism. Yet Dr. Barth, a dynamic pulpit orator, filled chapels when he taught at the Universities of Münster, Göttingen and Bonn, today fills the chapel at the University of Basle. And his sermons are of the oldtime hour-long variety. Earth's "crisis theology" can best be appreciated by people who believe the Church is complacent, self-assured, temporizing with crucial issues. Earth preaches that God is "wholly other...
...them $400), they bought a load of lemons in Los Angeles, rushed them to Oakland where they sold them, during a temporary shortage that boosted the price, for $520. But, as their luck was looking up, a drunken driver smashed into the truck, nearly killed Paul. Driving alone, hauling pipe to the oil fields, dynamite to Sonora, Nick picked up a girl on the road. He got her a room in Los Angeles, but after driving the 400 miles from Los Angeles to Oakland and back to Los Angeles, he was always so tired when he saw her that...
...Still of the Night," members of the Radcliffe Dance Group practicing in the corners, and a gallery of Bellboys scrambling for seats, the Lowell House Common Room is a bedlam a few minutes before eight these evenings. But when Courtland Canby '37, 1G lays aside his pipe, sheds his coat, and raps for attention the fifty-odd people assembled there get down to the business of rehearsing for Purcell's opera, "Dido and Aeneas...