Word: piped
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...cone on the steaming crust of the lava pool. Using compressed air as a coolant, they drilled a 3½-in. hole into the crust at the tedious rate of 1½ ft. every eight hours. The 1,652° heat damaged the diamond bits and jammed pipe threads, forcing a switch to powdered graphite as a lubricant. At nearly 17 ft., Rawson and Higgins added water to the compressed air, found that this speeded their drilling up to the rate of a foot an hour. Finally, at 19½ ft. the bit sank into molten lava after passing through...
Last week both men were eager to return to Kilauea Iki to try to convert the molten heat to power. By pumping water under high pressure down a pipe to the bottom of the pool and allowing it to percolate to the top as high pressure steam, they believe they might be able to tap enough power to drive a generator...
...last week, eight bombs exploded in the city, knocking out the electricity in a fifth of Havana, including the business district. Burning phosphorous sticks went into the mail drops at the central post office to burn the day's mail collection; another bomb burst a water pipe at an intersection...
...skylight. Once inside the apartment-the old ladies are out of town for the weekend-the intruders delicately drill a hole in the wall that stands between them and the jeweler's safe. Spfluroosh! A jet of water jumps out of the wall-they managed to hit a pipe. And so on to the climax, which comes in one of the grandest and goofiest sight gags since Stan Laurel looked into a bathroom mirror, saw a gorilla, decided that he must need a shave...
Hiken titled his winning entry, "Is Pipe Smoking a Mystery to You?" Boyd won the second place prize of $100 with "Plato on Leavitt & Peirce, one of his more recent dialogues." Two third prizes of $50 each went to Deborah R. Pavan '61 and Robert Reardon...