Word: pipes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...main clue to the Relativity Theory.* Age 77. He marked the week by resigning as head of the physics department at the University of Chicago because of ill health. Next spring at Pasadena, Calif., Professor Michelson, now convalescing from an operation, will peer through a very straight corrugated iron pipe, from which air will have been evacuated, to determine more accurately than heretofore the speed of light...
Sirs: In your issue of Nov. 11, page 58, you announced the purchase and early arrival of a one quarter million dollar pipe organ by Pierre Samuel duPont in Philadelphia, and as such superb musical instruments as this are so rare, would like to know if this music will go on the air and if so from what station...
...Pipe: Meerschaum, with gold band, from Vineyard, Mass...
...went to Mexico last week from Zapata County, Texas. Through 143 miles of spandy new 12¾ inch pipe it hissed across the border to feed iron and steel furnaces at Monterrey, "The Pittsburgh of Mexico." Pioneer in international public utility, United Gas Co. of Texas, already has contracts calling for natural gas exports of 18 million cubic feet daily through their new pipe. No niggards, they made expensive gas whoopee in Monterrey one night last week, lit a mighty "Inaugural Beacon" which spurted up house high from the Public Square...
...Never smoke a pipe until you are hacking home...