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Word: piped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enough when they started wearing pants. It was worse when they began using Brooks Brothers as a couturier. But nothing--not even being a Radcliffe student--should allow a girl to smoke a pipe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pipe This --- Gals Junk Coffin Nails . . . | 11/3/1949 | See Source »

...Pipe smoking has some drawbacks which even a 'Cliffedwelling faddist will admit to. Two of them bumped into a Boston Post reporter last spring. The astonished scribe was moved to comment, "The only thing that showed the girls still had their marbles was that they refused to divulge their names...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pipe This --- Gals Junk Coffin Nails . . . | 11/3/1949 | See Source »

...drivers, they are rather well off. They turn over every once in a while and suffer an occasional broken rib, but the injury rate is definitely lower for them than it is for the customers. All a driver's protection comes from two pipe braces, which criss-cross over the driver's head and keep the roof from caving in when a car overturns. Except for the windshield, there is no glass in the form of windows or headlights which might shatter in case of collision. The driver is equipped with an aviation-type safety belt and a football headgear...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 11/3/1949 | See Source »

Western Europe's harvest was almost in. In the rolling green hills of northern Bavaria, tanned, pipe-smoking farmers loaded the last of the rutabagas onto their creaking, unpainted wooden carts. Parisian housewives clucked approvingly at stalls piled high with vegetables, meat, butter and cheese (although they gaped in dismay at the high prices). In Rome last week, delegates to a regional conference of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization met to assess the food situation in eleven European nations. After six days, they emerged with cheerful news: Europe's food crisis was over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: End of a Crisis | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...under sleeping quilts and on the Persians themselves; hire 200 vaccinators and send them out to the villages; begin immediate instruction in elementary midwifery. At Karaj, where the old Shah wanted to build an integrated steel mill, O.C.I, recommends instead a small blast furnace and foundry to produce the pipe which Persia will need during the plan's first phases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN DEVELOPMENT: A Plan for the King of Kings | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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