Word: piped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Population: 5,091,000, less than half that of Pennsylvania; area: 352,141 square miles, about the size of Texas and Oklahoma combined. † Samples: a 15? can of U.S. pipe tobacco, $2.10; a medium-size refrigerator, $540; a Ford sedan...
Poet Alfred de Musset was next on the list. She sat on a cushion at his feet, puffing a long pipe of Bosnian cherrywood, while he murmured that "his genius was a poor, frail thing." It was. George left Alfred half dead in a Venetian hotel and took up with his Italian doctor. "Is it in you, my Pietro," Sand wrote to her medico, "in you at long last that I shall see my dream fulfilled?" It was not in Pietro...
Ever since Galileo stuck a couple of lenses in a length of pipe and got a glimpse of the solar system, scientists and storytellers have worked overtime peopling the outer universe with living creatures. It is high time, says Dr. Hubertus Strughold of the U.S. Air Force School of Aviation Medicine, "to raise the question of life on other planets to the biological plane where it belongs...
Surveying the wonder world of titanium, most U.S. businessmen have kept their eyes fixed on the sky. The lightweight, heat-resistant metal was obviously just the thing for high-speed, high-flying jet aircraft. But Chicago's Crane Co., No. 1 producer of valves and pipe-fittings, and one of the three biggest U.S. manufacturers of plumbing equipment,† has been looking closer to the ground. From the moment he heard about titanium's resistance to corrosion, Crane's President John L. (for Lindesay) Holloway began thinking of titanium as the ideal material for industrial valves...
Provocation. In Hartford, Conn., fined $50 and costs for hitting John H. Williams with an iron pipe, Chef Charles Cokinos of the Starlite Restaurant explained: "He only ordered a cup of coffee. He wasn't spending enough money...