Word: piped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They lie on their declarations, and use forged documents, doctored contracts, paper shuffling and tricky bookkeeping to fool the customs men. Their schemes often involve bringing in cheaper merchandise from behind the Iron Curtain: canned meat from Poland and Yugo slavia, steel, machinery and porcelain from East Germany, heating pipe from Hungary and even camel hair that probably originates somewhere in Asiatic Russia...
...left hand the blindfolded subject holds a tiller by which he can swing the sound beam, searching for test objects-small wires, lengths of pipe, pieces of cloth-hung at random from the chamber's roof. When the beam hits a target, an echo comes back, and from the character of that echo an experienced listener can tell an amazing amount about the target...
...sold, but not reproductions. The New York blue law code is particularly messy. Bars may open at 1 p.m., but baseball games may not begin until 2 p.m. It is legal to sell fruits but not vegetables, an automobile tire but not a tire jack, tobacco but not a pipe. It is unlawful to sell butter or cooked meat after 10 a.m., except that delicatessens may sell these foods between...
...Crystal Pipe Organ. Iowa-born Chemist Craig, 57, went to the Rockefeller in 1933 and did a monumental job separating the ingredients of ergot. World War II prompted Dr. Craig to switch to a group of chemicals that the armed forces were studying as substitutes for quinine. Among them was chloroquine, and Dr. Craig needed to know whether a chloroquine preparation was reasonably pure or contaminated with too many related chemicals...
Working with Technician Otto Post, he put together an intricate array of glassware that looks like a crystal pipe organ for Queen Mab's palace. It makes no music, but clicks monotonously every 30 to 120 seconds when it tilts to pour off some of its mixture. This C.C.D. machine works on the principle of liquid-liquid extraction: two substances are not likely to be equally soluble in two different solvents. And if the solvents are not soluble in each other, they can be separated. Whatever is dissolved in them will be separated also...