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Word: pipeful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Anything you mention around here is the thousands. It would be too costly and impractical to keep track of all the pipe, lumber, and other materials we use," explains Cecil A. Roberts, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds. Thus, while maintenance crews record the supplies they use on individual jobs, the central office does not tally the totals from the forms turned in each...

Author: By Lewis M. Steel, | Title: Buildings and Grounds: A Key for Every Door | 6/3/1955 | See Source »

Every field of maintenance necessary to run and improve the physical make-up of the University is represented in the Memorial Drive building. From the basement to the third floor, separate shops handle painting; upholstery, shades and furniture; refrigeration; pipe and plumbing; roofing...

Author: By Lewis M. Steel, | Title: Buildings and Grounds: A Key for Every Door | 6/3/1955 | See Source »

Attlee." As usual, his words were unexciting but got their emphasis from a certain waspishness of voice. Of the Big Four meeting: "We are all glad to see this rather delayed improvement . . ." "Clem," summed up one old party man, "is the greatest asset we have." A pipe-smoking, Christian, suburban respectability is his appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: On the Hustings | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

...Your Struggles Are Over." Stores in Los Angeles and Dallas have set up Crockett clubs, marked off special Davy Crockett sections where youngsters can find everything from a Davy Crockett peace pipe (98?) to a complete Davy Crockett outfit with rifle, powder horn, cap, etc. ($7.98); a Davy Crockett guitar costs $4.98 extra. Denver's May Co. advertises a Davy Crockett bath towel, with this pitch to mothers: "Your bathtime struggles are over . . . They'll run to use Davy Crockett towels." Davy Crock-etteer Fess Parker, who stars in Disney's TV series, has already endorsed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Wild Frontier | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

...blue stocking cap, stepped down from the front porch of a modest frame house at 112 Mercer Street, Princeton, N.J., and trudged off to the Institute for Advanced Studies. At a glance, the little man could have been the caretaker or a gardener. He puffed meekly at his pipe; he sidled in quietly; he seldom spoke unless spoken to. But on a second look, a rare quality seemed to glow in that sad and wizened face, with its disordered halo of white hair and its soulful brown eyes. The quality was genius, a compound of soaring intellect and wide-ranging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Death of a Genius | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

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