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Word: pipeful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unison, they play such lilting Scots tunes as Thistle Green and Wee MacGregor. On their heels, majestically slow, come 28 pipers and twelve drummers in a stunning rendition of standard Black Watch ceremonials. The Crimean Reveille starts with a single, furiously impatient bugle call that gives way to the pipes and drums skirling and moaning through The Soldier's Return and other wild pipe tunes-The Green Hills of Tyrol, King George V's Army, The Highland Laddie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pipe & Drum | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

Tall, spare, drill-pipe-straight Michael Late (after the doctor who delivered him) Benedum got into the oil business in the days when "anybody could drill for oil that was of a mind to. I don't remember ever meeting a geologist or even hearing the word." Benedum, son of a West Virginia cabinetmaker, teamed up with an oilfield roughneck named Joe Trees, and hit oil in Pleasants County, West Va. in 1895. He was soon making $1,500 to $2,000 a month from the property, and drilling more wells, at one point brought in eleven straight producers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Triple Play | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

...owns 31% of Plymouth Oil Co. (assets: $90 million), is the man behind Penn-Ohio Gas Co., Melben Oil Co., Republic Pipe Line Co., Cavalier Oil Co., Bentex Oil Co., half a dozen others with combined assets of well in the hundred millions. He is also the biggest stockholder in Ohio Oil Co. and the largest individual stockholder in International Petroleum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Triple Play | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

...Democrat is considered by many to have a pipe-line to the governor and high members of his administration...

Author: By George H. Watson jr., SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Newspaper Hints Faubus Will Summon Legislature | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...screen with almost as much distinction as his art. In his cluttered studio in the south of France, the 75-year-old artist sketched a town scene, fashioned a big-beaked bird from a freshly molded clay vase and made a figure on the floor from a clay pipe, broken bits of pottery and an olive branch. But he never uttered a sound. "I do not talk," Picasso had told NBC. "I only paint." In a fascinating finale, Pablo, bare-chested and wearing soiled black shorts, clambered up a ladder and with no preliminary sketches drew dancing goddesses across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sunday Sops | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

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