Word: piped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half feet long, was made of a Westinghouse nickel and silver alloy copper, lined with Pyrex glass, emptied of air, filled with inert nitrogen. Among the objects which went into it were a woman's hat, razor, can opener, fountain pen, pencil, tobacco pouch with zipper, pipe, tobacco, cigarets, camera, eyeglasses, toothbrush; cosmetics, textiles, metals and alloys, coal, building materials, synthetic plastics, seeds; dictionaries, language texts, magazines (TIME among them), other written records on microfilm...
Because last year's steam pipe system caused a great deal of air radiation, it had to be discarded in favor of some wiring system. While the actual method that will be employed during the next year is still undecided, it seems likely that the radio frequency waves from the central set will be distributed over shielded cable to the various buildings of the college. From there it will be released to the students' radio sets by way of the steel framework of those buildings...
...eastern campaign was being run from the committee's Manhattan office; its campaign manager was wiry, 4 2-year-old Sam Pry or Jr., Connecticut State boss, ex-lightweight boxer, businessman, big-game hunter. In his office Mr. Pryor scowled, mugged, chewed his pipe, sweated, conferred with waves of visitors, planned a political safari. Said Mr. Pryor last week, giving the impression of a man waiting for the signal to set off a howitzer: "Wait until after September 15." Strictly amateur, the Associated Willkie Clubs, whooped up by 28-year-old Lawyer Oren Root Jr., were under full steam...
...Paul boys cannot mistake the characters pilloried in The Wrong Attitude. One, whom Chanler grew to dis like so ardently that he carried a piece of lead pipe to swing whenever he thought of him, was "Chappie"- St. Paul's famed Housemaster Willard "Chappie" Scudder. Chappie wore a bifocal pince-nez and a drooping, waxed mustache, dressed in the height of fashion, was thoroughly at home at lawn parties,"never let his slight paunch get to be more than a slight paunch," in every way exemplified "the right attitude...
Paunchy, sloppy, nervous and absentminded, he sits in an enormous office, his pince-nez suspended on a black ribbon, ashes all over his vest. Before he has finished his cigar, he starts sucking a cold pipe, then returns to the cigar. He speaks into an intercommunicator, gets no answer, shouts at it, then finds he forgot to turn it on. Chuckling and giggling, he delights in whimsies, fables and gags of the sort that baffle most businessmen, some of whom think he is insane...