Word: pipes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dawes crossed his legs, lighted his underslung pipe and balanced his stiff straw hat on his knees. Gov. Bryan, after a moment of politeness said, 'Excuse me, General,' and covered his bald and shining dome with his black slouch...
...constant fear is of a cold in the head. With his hat on he becomes assured and self possessed quite as Gen. Dawes grows less tense, less nervous when his fingers are warmed by the bowl of his celebrated pipe...
Everything is Big at Hollywood. It is very fitting, therefore, that the Biggest pipe organ in the world should be installed there. The largest "orchestral organ" in the world is soon to be assembled in the great Hollywood Bowl, a natural open-air amphitheatre. The largest pipe in this musical monster will be 64 feet long. This single pipe will contain as much lumber as is used in the construction of a fair-sized bungalow. It will give out the note "CCCC," three octaves deeper than the lowest "C" on a piano. This note has only 16 vibration per second...
...interior is fairly well intact, even to champagne bottles in the wardroom. Barnacles and muscles encrust the sides; mud and sand have drifted in. The divers will be called upon to shut the seacocks, to close all the openings with metal patches and concrete plugs. Then a six-foot pipe will be sunk through the decks; pumps having a lifting capacity of 5,000 tons of water an hour will be lowered. If everything is plugged up, the ship will become buoyant and rise to the surface. There are many "ifs" in the process, however. The divers may have great...
...runner-up of the omnipresent, ubiquitous United chain, has invaded the musical field. It has bought Aeolian Hall, Manhattan's most delightful first-rank concert auditorium. With the hall itself goes the entire 17-story skyscraper structure, extending clear across from 42nd to 43rd Street, complete with pipe organ, radio station and numerous offices for concert managers, retired business men who wish to retain dignified New York business offices, and Christian Science practitioners...