Word: pipes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reaping? Fortunes were a making, but not many, men said. The pools, of course, came in for the main harvest. William C. Durant, motors man, was known to have profited on paper by between 10 and 12 millions in his remarkable "one-man pool" in U. S. Cast Iron Pipe...
...general impression was that Yale was dangerously powerful in all departments of football, and on only one occasion did the power fail; after the game when hundreds of undergraduates tried to tear down the goalposts. Ten minutes hard work availed naught The Palmer Stadium goals were made of Iron pipe...
...nations should be grouped in accordance with their geographical situation. They were then to conclude treaties, promising each other assistance in case of armed aggression. "Pooh," remarked John Bull, "I don't think much of that." "Blah," grunted Uncle Sam as he folded it up and lit his pipe with...
...Coolidge, assistant director of the research laboratory of the General Electric Co., told of developing a portable X-ray machine, weighing only 30 lb., which may be used in finding pipe and electrical connections in floors, examining jewels, finding contraband in luggage...
...first ten chapters, replete with graceful, pipe-in-mouth poses by the author, meticulously initiate the duffer into the serious mysteries of golf. Like any instruction book, this part is all very involved and reiterative, so eager is the teacher to tell all he knows and to be perfectly clear. He advances nothing new or profound, unless it is an emphatic command that the left toe shall "claw" the ground and the eye be fastened not upon the ball as a whole, but upon one particular dimple of the ball. The style advocated is the straight-armed, full-swinging British...