Word: piped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Headed by President Conant, a large number of College officials, including the ubiquitous Colonel Charles R. Apted '03, presented a meerschaum amber pipe to John Skehan yesterday morning in commemoration of 50 years of service in the University...
...deliver bulletins on the day's egg output in the sonorous language of Cicero. Today there are 1,500 acres around the 220-ft.-long house at Mount Hope and the tax assessment is one of the two highest in Massachusetts. Placid, meticulous Mrs. Prentice has a great pipe organ, gives elaborate musicales. A corps of geneticists and laboratory workers is constantly in residence, juggling the genes and chromosomes of 10,000 mice. Friends and admirers say that Mr. Prentice's unique achievement could never have come about had he not been rich enough to finance it, inquisitive...
...Furmanov and the fiery, jealous, and naively conceited Chapayev. But in contrast to his simple peasant mind is Chapayev's ability as a military strategist, of which we have just a glimpse as he tersely explains a military problem with the help of a few potatoes, cigarettes, and a pipe...
Fowler settled down again to his morning run-and-dip, his pipe, his work, his wife. As she grew older, both knew she was dying of cancer: neither ever mentioned the subject to the other. They lived in a cottage all their lives, never kept a servant. When she died (1930) he tried manfully to go on with his old-bachelor ways, but he was an old man himself by then. His morning run became a walk, then a snooze by the fire. Three years later, at the age of 75. Lexicographer Fowler quietly joined his lady...
...proposed petition, however, is the indication that the members of the Liberal Club are taking life, themselves, and the importance of the Club far too seriously. Throughout the nation, for that matter, people are showing a strong tendency to jump at the first panacea that comes down the pipe. The point is not that world-wide affairs are unimportant; they are. It is not that college students should not interest themselves in government to the point where they will enter public service themselves after graduation; they should. But what America needs is to be laughed at, and to laugh...