Word: piped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With all its parts sheathed in insulating boxes, the transmitter of the Crimson Radio Network will not send out waves "over the air" for more than 25 or 30 feet, but it will "pipe" them into every corner of the University, Charles W. Oliphant '41, technical director of the Network, stated yesterday...
...principal reason why radio waves will follow the heating system," Oliphant explained, "is that their frequencies are so high. Currents of lower frequency would immediately jump into the ground, despite the abestos insulation." The same experiment made at Brown last year probably failed because of insufficient pipe insulation...
...striding up and down in front of the fireplace, glowing pipe in hand. His somewhat forlorn frame was suitably encased in baggy tweeds. There was a brandy-snifter on the mantelpiece with a thin film of amber curving along the bottom. Vag decided that he cut a pretty smooth figure in front of the fire, especially when the tiny yellow flames spurted and gave his face a ruddy gleam easily mistaken, he thought, for the flush of ambition of a young man about to graduate from Harvard. "But what do you want to be?" came the quiet voice from...
...which were certain to come his way sooner or later. A job with the Times, a year or so of brilliant dispatches filed from Bucharest, and then--Vag, freelance writer; Vag, special adviser to the State Department; Vag's best-selling memoris. After a little while he noticed his pipe had gone...
...pipe, damn it, was almost a symbol; he knocked out its ashes vehemently. Vag turned toward the easy chair and was ready to parrot back that you've got to be something, you know; the wife and kids; food, shelter, clothing; life in a groove. But the voice had changed for the better. It was a kindly voice Vag heard. "By the way, son, if they all turn you down, you might even come in with me down at the office. Start as a runner, of course at fifteen per." Even though he had heard that speech before, Vag didn...