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Word: pipeful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Caution. In New Limerick, Me., a 102-year-old pipe-smoker swore off for his health's sake, took up chewing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 6, 1941 | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...Hamlet's ancient pipe is discoursing again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: As Easy As Lying | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...think? The crisis was on Russian soil, right now. And where was the great aid that Churchill and Roosevelt had talked about? So far he had received only a few squadrons of British planes and a few tankers of American oil. He was fed to his pipe-clamping teeth with talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: EASTERN THEATER: Man of Steel | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

...them in a 200-million-year-old lava bed atop Avon Mountain near his home in Hertford. Toting a load of particularly clangorous cobbles home with him, Professor Troxell set them in a row, chipped them into tune with the aid of a chisel and a 10? pitch pipe. When he was through, he had a complete C Major scale three octaves long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Petrophonist Troxell | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

...alarmed by the unknown ordeal that he prepared himself with typhoid injections. They live in the 150-year-old house of a retired Wyoming Valley lawyer-farmer. They pay $50 (some have scholarships) for the four-week session, for food, staff salaries, etc. Camp director is young (32), pipe-smoking Edward Wright, teacher (Fieldston School), New York City Republican reform politician (he ran for the City Council last year). On his staff are a medical student, who looks after campers' hurts, an educational director and Work Director Stanley Mesavage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Boys & Girls At Work | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

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