Word: pipings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Never trust a guy who smokes a pipe. They sit around and look thoughtful, but all the time they're figuring how they can steal a hot stove...
...Puritanism. Surinam, or Dutch Guiana, was a stopping place on the Yankee merchant circuit. Greenwood spent some years there, put himself in his picture rushing, candle in hand, for the door. Among the other identified portraits is that of Captain Nicholas Cooke (later Governor of Rhode Island), smoking a pipe and talking with Captain Esek Hopkins (later commander of the Continental navy) at the table. Another Hopkins, Stephen (who was to sign the Declaration of Independence), blesses an oblivious salt with rum, while Captain Ambrose Page neatly vomits in his pocket. The time is 2 a.m. and things (including Page...
...Concrete pipe: 4,380,000 tons v. 2,640,000 tons...
...Clay pipe and tile: 15,032,600 linear ft. v, 8,100,000 linear...
...Line. In Long Beach, Calif., after being sentenced to five days in jail for damaging telephone equipment, Pipe-Fitter Eugene C. Bennett explained to the judge that he cut his phone wire with a paring knife because "I got sick and tired of hearing my wife talking with her mother for an hour and a half...