Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Double Armor. In Manhattan, police charged that Rafael Rios was doing his pickpocketing with a Bible in one hand and a concealed lead pipe in the other...
...library system was a collection of dark buildings filled with shabby books and headed by inept political appointees. Reform groups demanded that something be done. The first trained librarian they picked died in office after only a few months. The second time they were luckier: they got a bookish, pipe-smoking Tennessean named John Hall Jacobs...
Some of the steam was taken out of Billy Rose's pipe dreams last week. The Metropolitan Opera announced that it would be able to have a 1948-49 season after all, and without Billy's help. The season would start late-possibly not until the first of December-and be only 16 or 17 weeks long...
...During dredging operations in the Delaware River, Army divers found the wreck of an English vessel sunk in 1750. Unable to raise the ship, the Army pumped most of its cargo through a suction pipe, spewing a mass of silt and 18th Century pewter plates, brass buttons, locks & keys, and silver shoe buckles on the riverbank...
...cutting a narrow trench 80 feet from the mill, Godfrey hopes to find traces of the "ambulatory walk" of the Norse church. Uncovered thus far: a 1696 King William III penny, a lead musket ball, an old brass button, a clay pipe...