Word: piped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steel disc are designed to act as resonators, i.e., to intensify sound waves. When they are closed by the wheel's teeth, the air rushing through them stops suddenly. A compression (sound) wave builds up, reverberates back & forth as if the channel were a tiny organ pipe. When the wheel is revolving at proper speed, the wave snaps back just in time to find the end of the channel uncovered. It pops out into the open, carrying with it a monster pulse of sound energy...
From his neat, gold-rimmed spectacles, reassuring pipe, and dignified classroom smile, Eugene DuBois is easily spotted as a professor. It is harder to guess that he is an outstanding physiologist whose researches made possible medicine's standard basal metabolism test...
...smoking mixture (coltsfoot and clover leaf, scented with lavender or rose leaf) commonly used by sufferers from asthma or catarrh. Said London's deluxe tobacconist, Alfred Dunhill: "No self-respecting smoker would smoke a herbal mixture." But thousands of Britons were mixing the sweetish stuff with their pipe tobacco; it cost only fourpence an ounce, about one-tenth of the price of tobacco...
Stepping across the Yard, Vag took a short fix on the Mem Hall clock and suddenly ducked aside, just in time to miss a Radcliffe troop coming the other way. Such happy looks on their faces, he mused--and then almost dropped his pipe. Of course, he thought with a start, the Emancipation Proclamation was in effect--co-education was here to stay. In his daze, he narrowly cleared another covey of skirts and sweaters. He could distinctly hear the 1896 Gate squeaking its hinges in disgust and any time now, the Mem Hall bell would start up a dirge...
...shook his head. First they won suffrage and now--This. He might get used to the idea in time, but it would take quite a while. And what's more, he thought, as he knocked the heel from his pipe, he would always live in fear of seeing girl cheerleaders at the next Harvard-Yale game...