Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From a few earnest botany classes to the streamlined co-ed Summer School of 1942 is in brief the history of Harvard's summer sessions. Stove-pipe hatted students may not have whistled, but they certainly were startled by the sight of women, in skirts and bustles, attending their lectures and section meetings in the summer...
James V. Forrestal, 50, went to Washington after making a pile of money in Wall Street, where he was president of the investment banking firm of Dillon, Read & Co. He still wears his banker's semi-stiff collars, smokes a pipe, has an amiably smashed nose from boxing. A man of healthy cynicism, Forrestal sometimes says: "I doubt very seriously that I'm doing any good down here. I don't know whether businessmen should go into the government or not." But as Under Secretary of the Navy, Jim Forrestal reorganized the archaic Navy purchasing system...
...powerful archaic open scale which artisans and farmers still knew from the Middle Ages, but which the musically literate upper classes had begun to scorn. In Boston the one-eyed crippled tanner, William Billings, was even bolder. He got the cello into church, and the much more needed pitch pipe. Against the ancient unison of the psalms he offered "fuges." For greater dissonance he recommended the braying of an ass, the filing of a saw, the squealing of a hog "who is extremely weak," the "cracking" of a crow, the howling of a dog, the squalling...
Russian troops retreating through the Caucasus have put the torch to the wheat fields and granarles of the Kuban valley, one of the richest farm areas in the country, Moscow announced Sunday, and the Germans claimed to have captured both Maikop and Krasnodar, pipe line and refinery centers of the Maikop oil fields...
...ever-present pipe of the professor comes out of his pocket automatically whenever he becomes engaged in a classroom discussion. He listens carefully to his opponent, and then darts back at the questioner with an array of arguments which support his point of view. He prefers small classes to large ones because there is more opportunity for talk back and forth with his students, but the mixed classes of summer school he dislikes. "It's better to keep the boys and girls separate," he insists...