Word: piped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would depend largely on two scientists: big, bulky Abram Feodorovitch Joffe, distinguished for work in electronics and molecular physics; and Dr. Peter Kapitza, who visited Moscow in 1935, after 13 years at Britain's Cambridge, and was refused permission to leave when he made ready to return. Tweedy, pipe-smoking Peter Kapitza has been there ever since, and he said he was perfectly happy when Dr. Langmuir saw him in Moscow last June...
Bishop Dutoit and Auvity evidently felt duty-bound to resign from their dioceses. Last week, Pipe Pius XII accepted both resignations. Many in religious circles saw in the action the beginnings of a long-awaited "purge" of collaborationist clergymen. The New York Times predicted : "About 20 prelates are expected to be affected...
...County, S.C., where they lived, young Doc began to imitate his old man early. When he was two and a half, he got his aunt to hold a football (see cut) and managed to kick it a few feet. The next year he tried out his father's pipe and set fire to the barn...
...Wall Street Men. Behind his huge desk, gazing skeptically over the top of his pipe and only occasionally flaring into tightlipped, concise profanity, Forrestal wrought some changes. One of them was to transform the Navy into a businesslike partnership between civilians and brass hats, drawing into the firm such men as regular Navyman Admiral Richard S. Edwards, on the one hand, and brilliant H. (for Herman) Struve Hensel, also a graduate of Princeton, ex-Wall Street attorney, on the other. Roosevelt lifted Hensel out of the Navy's Legal Department into an Assistant Secretaryship. There are many and various...
...Prime Minister's new Steve Early is one of the bright boys of British Socialism: chunky, rumpled, pipe-smoking Francis Williams. Reporters from many nations had applauded Francis Williams' deft handling of British publicity at the San Francisco conference. He convinced Tory Anthony Eden that Britain stood to gain by letting the press in on what went on; consequently, the correspondents' behind-the-scenes picture came to them mostly through British eyes...