Word: piped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...owner of the British challenger. Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, arrived in Manhattan last week, a few days ahead of his Endeavour which was being towed across the Atlantic by his Diesel yacht. With a stickpin burgee of the Royal Yacht Squadron in his necktie and a briar pipe in his mouth. Owner Sopwith said what he thought about the races and Endeavour...
Making rayon out of nitrocellulose is a delicate chemical process involving the use of ether, alcohol and acids. A sudden shut-down at Hopewell ruined not only the material being processed but collodion solidified in the pipe lines and spinning pumps, and the acids ate into the neglected machinery...
...Omaha James Roosevelt, eldest of the President's four sons, freely posed for newscameramen, told reporters: "I think my brother Frank is very foolish to be so camera shy." In circulation at the time was a photograph of Son James puffing a pipe-shaped cigar which its sponsors call a "cigapipe...
...afternoon last week a handful of Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientists gathered on the private airport of Col. Edward Howland Robinson Green at Round Hill. Mass. On a scaffold 30 ft. over their heads, a 100-ft. length of slender pipe pointed a battery of nozzles across the field. The sun set and the dusk thickened. All eyes were turned toward Buzzards Bay, where a bank of fog was rolling inland. The men had been waiting for fog for days...
When the billowing white curtain had blotted out land and sky. Researcher Henry G. Houghton Jr. barked an order. Centrifugal pumps sent a high-pressure stream of liquid through the overhead pipe. Its nozzles hissed, and jets of Mr. Houghton's chemical cut into the fog like rapiers. The white sea seemed to divide, roll back like the Red Sea before Moses. Soon the watchers were looking through a half-mile tunnel of clear air, 30 ft. high, 100 ft. wide...