Word: pipings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Case for the Crown is that on the night of the murder, the earl brought Lady Broughton home after Sir Jock had retired, that Sir Jock later climbed out of his bedroom by a balcony or drain pipe, met the earl, killed...
Lieut. Charles R. Yancey and Captain Lowell Bean put together a practical sight for a 75-mm. gun from two lengths of iron pipe (cost: $1), two 15? mirrors, 10? worth of adhesive tape. In casual tests during maneuvers in Tennessee, a gun with their sight got more hits than one with a complicated, expensive, and unsatisfactory affair which the Army had adapted to anti-tank use. General Staff officers and high-ranking artillerymen promptly beat a path to the doors of Yancey & Bean, decided their gadget was worth looking into...
...main system was completed in 1939. Finished last week were 150 more miles of distributing lines which pipe the water from the filter plant (capacity: 1,000,000 gallons a day) near Riverside to the reservoirs of Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Long Beach, Santa Ana, nine other cities. As the sweet waters of the far-off Colorado slowly welled up last week into a subterranean chamber supplying Sunset Reservoir, Pasadena became the first community in the system to get the District's water...
...coming from the northeast were parallel and 100-odd miles apart. The lower column, motorized, was to strike at Palmyra's airport, continue to Horns, which is an important highway junction with a 50,000 population. Then the column was to take over the end of the oil pipe-line at Tripoli...
...peace pipe is the briar that Japan's crop-haired Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka smokes vehemently on all occasions. As an Axis-minded statesman, Mr. Matsuoka has taken much criticism, but last week it was not his policies that drew fire. In Tokyo, Dr. Doichi Okada, head of Japan's Anti-Smoking League, publicly begged the Foreign Minister not to set an unhealthy example for young people by puffing in public, posing pipe in mouth for photographs...