Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conductor lit a pipe. "Both sides passed out uniformly bad cigars this year, and neither party commits itself on the question of Grade B motion pictures. What Boston needs is a five cent fare or a fire." Seeing this line of questioning was getting me nowheres, I lowered my voice...
...attack to suit the talents of his players and to upset the calculations of his opponents. Although tackling and blocking still win most football games, contemporary coaches must have a fat bag of offensive tricks (some have as many as 200). What the 1938 coach sees in his pipe dreams is a magician at every position-not only to fool his opponents but to please his public...
...Launched a new attack upon basing-point price systems. The Federal Trade Commission already has three basing-point cases in the works-against the Cement Institute, the United Fence Manufacturers Association and the Cast Iron Soil Pipe Association. Each of these complaints has charged violation both of the Robinson-Patman Act, forbidding price discrimination between customers, and of FTC rulings, forbidding price conspiracy between companies. Last week, for the first time, acting solely under the Robinson-Patman Act, FTC challenged gigantic Corn Products Refining Co.'s basing-point price setup, gave No. 1 U. S. producer of syrups...
...intent only on getting to his or her job on time so that, when the man at the top of the heap pushes the button, all the units can awake into smooth action simultaneously. Vag watches them as he fumbles in the caverns of his reversible for a pipe. Then the shiny, long, important train pokes its headlight around the curve and eyes the station platform for a moment. Slowly, deliberately, it chooses one of the center tracks, shoulders aside a local, and cases its hard, smooth body into the train shed like a tired athlete sliding into bed between...
...theorist responsible for this Duke retreat is the Law School dean, tanned, pipe-smoking Hugo Claude Horack, a hunter and fisherman. Dean Horack used to be investigator of legal education for the American Bar Association, and he concluded that the best place for barristers to learn law and social responsibility is in a quiet, simple atmosphere. Last summer he had five log cabins built as an experiment. One is a recreation centre. Eight students live and study in each of the others. But students are spared Abraham Lincoln's handicaps. They study not by firelight but by electric light...