Word: piped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...students expect 50 western rooters to show up for the broadcast, at 50 cents a head. The money covers only refreshments, since Tidewater Associated has agreed to pipe the play-by-play across the continent free of charge...
...Grand Electors of France turned out last week to elect a new Council of the Republic, the government's upper house. Some came from Paris and the big cities. But the great majority were prosperous, pipe-smoking farmers. In leather gaiters and stained, shapeless hats, and smelling of the land in which they were rooted, they represented the traditional backbone of France...
...high-ceilinged library of an English manor house one rainy day this fall, a bony, white-haired priest in an oversized clerical collar pecked away at a portable typewriter. From time to time he paused to knock the ashes out of his pipe against the fireplace or consult one of the fat books stacked on the massive antique table before him. At last he stood up, pulled the paper from his typewriter and closed his reference books with a ceremonious bang. His nine-year labor was finished. Monsignor Ronald Knox had completed his translation of the Catholic Bible...
Britain's Prime Minister Clement Attlee, 65, ailing for six weeks with an ulcer, was ordered to cut down his smoking to two pipes a day. Forthwith he sent out for the biggest pipe that could be bought in London...
...Girard Davidson agreed that allocations had just about been done to death-but by a different hand. He had asked the Department of Commerce's Steel Products Advisory Committee (composed of 27 of the industry's top executives) for enough steel to permit all oil line-pipe mills and mine machinery makers to operate at capacity. The committee had turned him down. Last week Davidson accused the committee of "supplying steel for nonessential and even frivolous purposes ... I can draw no conclusion . . . other than that the steel industry has decided to jettison the voluntary allocations program...