Word: piped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eleven years as director of Manhattan's Xavier Labor School, Father Philip Carey has become a familiar figure to thousands of working men & women. He is a mild and scholarly Jesuit whose students are electricians, scrubwomen, plumbers, bus drivers, pipe fitters, and wire lathers. The lesson Father Carey teaches them: how to build strong and effective unions...
However, this is merely routine for the seventy-two maintenance men who take care of the tunnels around the clock in three shifts. They must check all the instruments, the sixty-five charts, and the miles of piping daily. Beyond steam pipes, they must take care of inter-University phone pipe lines, pipes to recapture condensed water from the steam, and pipes to carry the compressed air that runs the thermostats. WHRB also has a few of its own pipes in the tunnels, carrying coaxial cables that are spliced in with the Houses' electrical systems...
...tradition the race begins with Godolphin as the passenger, but somewhere on the other side the two change, and Godolphin comes out the laborer. Every year the highjinks at "horsing" change, but one constant is the tradition of the seniors ridiculing the professors, singing songs, and smoking clay pipes together. The ceremony closes with every senior breaking his pipe against the cannon...
...generosity. At this point we find two individuals confronting each other in Mr. Goodfriend's pages--a baffied American advertising executive, evidently stuck on the problem how further to exploit the "X" in LUX ("New! Faster! Sudsier! So Safe!"), and a primordial-looking Chinese oldster, complete with whiskers and pipe, peering quizzically at us through Chinese eyes. The subsequent illustrations of what WE SAW and what THEY SAW ("WE SAW output raised by tractors and other machinery": "THEY SAW wheels, gears and gasoline that mystified and humiliated them," and so on) is the most mordant and clear-cut comment...
...West Coast hot-rod fiends have been making pedestrians leap like kangeroos ever since some nameless hot-rodder rigged a sparkplug in his exhaust pipe and made a profound discovery-that waste gases, thus ignited, produce a spectacular "hoosh" of flame. Last week the Portland, Ore. city council was taking steps to make hot-rod flame-throwing illegal. But the fad was moving faster than the lawmakers ; Longview, Wash, reported with nervous pride that a local rodder was regularly getting a six-foot "hoosh...