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Word: pipings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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First witness was pipe-smoking Dr. William Leiserson, 56, appointed to the Board eight months ago, with a reputation as a labor mediator. Dr. Leiserson stated the case for NLRB about as well as it has been stated. He denied that the Act needed amendment. He reminded the Committee of the conditions that brought about the Act-the use of labor spies, the discrimination against good union men, the tragedies of violence in labor disputes, the old hostility against labor legislation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Labor's Safeguardians | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...When Boy Scouts or Girl Guides are assigned to "water detail," voices pipe up: "Stay out of those bushes"; "Be careful of the side of the barn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Wrong Door, Wrong Door | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

This was an old trick to the Apted men who warned students to beware especially of a pseudo pipe salesman and a sailor with a hard luck story, reported recently to be working the College dormitories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO MEN CAUGHT IN YARD FOR FRAUDULENT CHARITY DRIVE | 12/19/1939 | See Source »

...weeks ago, the Mavericks gathered in a San Antonio court. Albert Maverick's boy Maury was in trouble. Dr. George Maverick came all the way from New York, smoked his pipe with an air of "I'm here if needed." Pretty Maverick girls flashed hot glances at anti-Mavericks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Mavericks' Maury | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Through the open door of a bedroom he noted a rumpled bed, a blue bathrobe flung carelessly over it, on the floor a pair of men's large bedroom slippers. He peeked into a study packed with books, filing cabinets, a globe. On the floor an Assyrian water pipe, two-thirds-filled, caught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Case of the Bedroom Slippers | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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