Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When a pipe connects liquids standing at different heights in two vessels, the liquids level...
...yellow nightgown. Over at the New York Journal, William Randolph Hearst fumed at the new weapon introduced into his bitter circulation war with Pulitzer. In October Hearst announced his own new color section: "eight pages of iridescent polychromous effulgence that makes the rainbow look like a piece of lead pipe." Its star attraction: The Yellow Kid; Hearst had lured Outcault away. To replace him, Pulitzer hired George Luks, then a little-known painter, to draw a Yellow Kid for the World. The ensuing circulation battle of the kids gave the U.S. a new name for sensational papers-"yellow journalism...
...Forty-nine-year-old Alfred Nessler of Schenectady made a new world's record by keeping his pipe going without relighting for 87 minutes and 55 seconds. ¶ One out of every four workers in U.S. factories is a woman, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. In 1947, 3,100,000 women worked in factories, 800,000 more than...
...trousers at two guineas each, with a shining topper thrown in gratis. To everybody's relief, the King announced that the Household Cavalry would not wear khaki when escorting the bride to the Abbey, but would appear in all their full-dress glory: scarlet and blue uniforms with pipe-clayed breeches and flashing cuirasses...
...sheik) ; the soldiers of fortune, the prisoners of Zenda, the daughters of the regiment, the little shepherds of Kingdom Come; here are the ministers who gave up their pulpits and went into the slums or who, out in the great west, or in the north woods, found peace and pipe-smoking contentment far from the falsities of society. The book has something of the fascination that might be found in a catalogue of paste gems...