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Word: pipings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thereupon Judge Jeffries removed his spectacles and stepped down from the bench. As Lawyer Jeffries, he examined the State's witness, a policeman who said he had approached the defendant, searched him, found in his pocket a piece of pipe wrapped in newspaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Crazy Business | 3/14/1932 | See Source »

...supposed to have worn the same felt hat since the day he arrived. He speaks of the cinema and its moguls with witty contempt but sees to it that, when feasible, he is photographed from the left side, and shown, at one moment or another, puffing on a pipe. Gossipmongers, picturing him as an eccentric, are delighted by the fact that he has the only privately owned dinosaur's egg in the U. S.; that his wife (Dolores Costello) calls him "Winkie"; that he maintains a large aviary in which his favorite is an ugly vulture named Maloney. Once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Reunion in Hollywood | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

Japanese troops, again advancing (for the fourth time) upon Kiangwan, were held at bay by concealed nests of Chinese machine gunners. Like a lead pipe whanged against something harder, the Japanese line bent partly around Kiangwan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Japan Shanghaied | 2/29/1932 | See Source »

...Edward R. Tinker would not allow a treacherous female adventurer to pat his shoulder. Nor would he (even to strengthen the financial structure of Fox Film Corp.) impersonate a radio voice to astonish a sandpile millionaire in Asia Minor as a preliminary to smoking imitation hashish through a gasoline pipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 22, 1932 | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

...National Distillers 372 307 Owens-Illinois Glass 2,744 2,738 Phillips-Jones 1 70 d 249 d R. J. Reynolds 36,396 34,256 Scott Paper 997 986 Standard Fruit 741 10 Union Bag and Paper 112 155d U. S. Radio & Television 801 365 Western Pipe & Steel 767 527 Zonite Products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Earnings | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

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