Word: pipings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spanish physician whom American Indians taught to smoke tobacco introduced that indigenous American plant to Europe in 1558. Sir Walter Raleigh, whom Sir Francis Drake taught to smoke a pipe in 1586, made smoking fashionable in Elizabethan England. Now the tobacco habit is so deeply fixed among mankind that U. S. consumers alone last year bought 134,607,741,257 cigarets, 4,763,883.947 cigars, 95,875 tons of pipe tobacco, 18,030 tons of snuff. That smoking is not injurious to the vast majority of smokers is attested by the microscopic size of the anti-tobacco movement...
...proudly explained in Manhattan last week that for radiotelephony between fixed points, Bell's coaxial cable provides "a piece of the ether which has been segregated from all the other ether in the world." Because it can carry a frequency band 1,000,000 cycles wide and can "pipe" tele vision underground for hundreds of miles...
...Harvard there are two kinds of tutors. The first, who draw their salary from the University, are chiefly pipe-smoking, tweedy young faculty members who are supposed to give undergraduates leisurely official coaching for their general examinations. The second form a more interesting group. Housed in walk-up offices around Harvard Square, they are paid by panicky students to provide them with enough last-minute information to squeeze them through any kind of examination, a job usually accomplished in three tense, packed hours. About half the students feel called upon to patronize a tutoring bureau at some point in their...
...pictures made by cutting apart old engravings and rearranging them to make bustled ladies with lions' heads, assassins with angels' wings, strange trees growing from horses' backs, etc. Examining these and other dadaist creations, Poet Andre Breton, who frequently dresses entirely in green, smokes a green pipe, drinks a green liqueur and has a sound knowledge of Freudian psychology, discovered behind all this a newer and better ism. In the autumn of 1924 he wrote his Manifesto of Surrealism, and a word and a school were born.* Excerpt: "Surrealism rests in the belief in the superior reality...
...Fairmont, W. Va.. James F. Gwynn discovered a reservoir of honey cached by a hive of bees behind his kitchen wall. Ingenious James Gwynn rigged up a pipe line from the hive to his breakfast table, now flavors his hot cakes from a little honey spigot directly above his plate. Chase...