Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Houses, the Yard, and the Business School will have little cause to worry over the heating problem, since that entire area is heated by exhaust steam from the Cambridge Electric Light Company. The steam is carried by several miles of underground pipe extending from the Business School, through the Yard, to the laboratories beyond Memorial Hall. Because the Electric Company burns coal, no shortage is predicted for the user future...
...reception line at the "White House" (home of Oklahoma's presidents). Joe invited groups of honor students to join him in the "White House" game room, where they ate wieners and hashed over the state of the world. He strode around the campus hatless and with a pipe in his mouth, worked in his shirtsleeves, installed a typewriter at his desk on which to bat out ideas. Undergraduates soon began to cry "Hello, Joe" when they passed his house at night. He abolished fraternity rush week and undergraduate car-driving (because of the war), made short shrift of flunkers...
Frustrated freight is the Washington nickname for goods that were manufactured, paid for, consigned and ready for shipment to all kinds of "friendly" governments and nationals-but never left the U.S. It consists of shells, motors, machines, pipe, steel bars, copper wire etc. ordered by the whole roster of European nations now Axis-occupied, not to mention China and all the Good Neighbor Republics. The goods got to some port of embarkation and frustration began-usually no ships...
...first pipe or two disappointed him, but he persisted, hoping for the dreams of which he had read. These came eventually and one of them, which recurred over some weeks, seemed to him to contain the key to the secret of the universe. With an enormous effort he managed one night to write the secret down. The denouement, he says, was disappointing, for on the following morning he read 'The banana is great, but the skin is greater...
...long racks were hung hundreds of twisted pipe lengths ready to be placed in their special places in the ship's belly. In warehouses were stored valves sent from Massachusetts, winches from Ohio, the thousands of small parts which manufacturers had faithfully fashioned to minute specifications, ready to be carried aboard, bolted or welded into place...