Word: pipes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...journalists roared heartily, presented the Premier with "the finest pipe in the world." Mr. Baldwin thanked them, confessed that he had never spent more than three shillings (approx. 75?) on a pipe...
Then Prof. Michelson proceeded to describe an experiment which has been in progress for some months on a prairie just west of Chicago (TIME, Aug. 11). There a rectangle of 12-inch pipe, almost a mile in perimeter, was laid down. Its greater dimension extends from east to west. This pipe was sealed and the air exhausted. Mirrors were placed in the corners so that a beam of light would be reflected completely around it. In one corner an arc light was placed, the beams of which, split by mirrors, were reflected around the rectangle in opposite directions...
Prof. Michelson was nearing the end of his lecture. He told of the difficulties the experimenters encountered. An air leak developed in the pipe and some hundreds of joints had to be repainted. The jars of a train moving more than a mile away disordered the delicate instruments. Much of the work had to be done at night and in the early hours of the morning to avoid mechanical difficulties...
Results. Mr. McCormack was advertised ; Miss Bori was advertised; the Victor Talking Machine Co. was advertised ; millions of radio fans heard two great singers pipe their sweetest; tremors shook the frames of Broadway producers, managers. During that evening, many plush playhouse seats had been left gaping by folk who had stayed home ,to hear Miss Bori, Mr. McCormack...
Recent decisions of the New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals?handed down in Day and Moran v. The United States Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry Co. and frequently referred to in the current financial and legal publications? indicate-that the rights, in dollars and cents, of non-cumulative preferred stockholders have not been as rigidly insisted upon as they might have been...