Word: piped
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...England lept into modern sanitation when Sir John Harrington, godson of Elizabeth I, published Metamorphosis of Ajax, in which he described a new kind of water closet: a raised cistern with a small pipe down which water ran when released by a valve. The Queen installed Harrington's invention in her palace at Richmond, but it took another 200 years before a man named Alexander Cummings developed the S-shaped pipe underneath the basin to keep out foul odors. At the end of the 18th century, the flushable toilet went mainstream...
Harvard came out on top in the shot count, 10-7, and rookie Kaitlin Spurling and senior Anna McDonald each had scoring opportunities, with McDonald hitting the pipe on a breakaway shot...
...Golden Knights were called for too many men on the ice with four minutes to play, and the Crimson generated a number of shots on net—including a long shot from co-captain Cori Bassett that hit the pipe before skirting wide—but couldn’t capitalize...
Students in Baltimore may complain, but they fail to recognize the exciting opportunities that recreating Harvard on their campus will bring. Hopkins students now have a perfect excuse to don their preppiest Ivy League clothing, complete with a different cardigan, pipe, and protractor for each day. Maybe a few job recruiters will get confused and show up in Maryland also...
...Accused of detonating a pipe bomb in 2008 at the home of Israeli professor Zeev Sternhell, a critic of the country's far right and the Jewish settler movement. Sternhell suffered minor injuries. Other alleged attacks include stabbing and wounding an Arab whom he believed was making sexual advances in a Jerusalem park in 1997, and attacking a police station in 2006 to distract police officers from a nearby gay-pride parade...