Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...liberal program. Last week Leon Blum gave his best efforts to flirting with these all-important 50 votes. He had already got the Communists' promise to support, but not to join, his Government. The Radical Socialist machine had agreed to join the Government. There was still paunchy, pipe-smoking M. Herriot to be reckoned with...
First ashore went the dumpy Empress Menen, her two daughters, the 12-year-old Duke of Harar and Crown Prince Asfa Wassan. Then down the gangplank, to the mournful tweetle of the boatswain's pipe, stepped little Haile Selassie in a sun helmet and a long white cloak. The Carnaro's band burst into the Fascist anthem: Giovinezza! A British military band hurriedly sprayed the air with a brassy countermelody. With the little Emperor was his "good" son-in-law, Ras Desta Demtu, and Ras Kassa, who fought the Italians in the north. Sharp eyes could find...
...conditioning, Dr. Gorrie placed the ice in "an ornamental mantel vase, urn or basin" suspended close to the ceiling by chains. Immediately above the ice a hole was made in the ceiling. Into this was fitted a pipe which led through the floor above to the chimney. Air contracting around the cold ice created a partial vacuum which sucked outside air from the chimney. This blew over the ice, spilled down around the room, cooled the patient's fever...
...Physician-in-Ordinary addressed this week, tried to keep Lord Horder from speaking his mind to ship-news reporters. That self-reliant Briton, who repeatedly has said that "doctors get mighty little prestige without publicity," refused to be shushed, motioned Dr. Sondern to keep quiet, lit a new briar pipe, declared: "It can be said with every emphasis that [King Edward VIII] is in good health. He keeps himself fit, wants very little doctoring and takes so much exercise that sometimes he has to be restrained a little. He flies very little now, because he's very aware...
...Jersey has so far made the tremendous investment necessary to get South American oil to market. Colombian oil fields are deep in mountainous jungles, far from water transport. Even more important in delaying Colombian developments were the involvements of Colombian concession laws. Standard's 356-mi. Andean Pipe Line from its De Mares Concession to Cartagena on the Caribbean has carried virtually all the oil Colombia has ever produced, less than 175,000,000 bbl. Most famed of Colombia's undeveloped concessions is the Barco, covering an area larger than that of Rhode Island. Originally granted...