Word: piping
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...ambulance, a fire engine, or even a patrol wagon? Of course it is rather hard to keep up an appearance of dignity while swinging on the back end of a hook and ladder, but who could have guessed the identity of such a daring passenger, unless the Dawes pipe had been noticed? Or take the police patrol; here surely is safe and rapid transit, as long as Mr. Dawes took care not to look out of the windows, for even Washington would have been startled to see the Vice-President peering anxiously through the bars of a Black Maria...
Skehen removed his short clay pipe and gazed reflectively out of the window of his little cabin under Widener gate. "Take St. Patrick's day for instance. I've seen it pouring on Harvard Square and three hundred students out parading in the rain, soaked outside and in. They would stop every block or so to brace up their spirits, and keep on marching. If they stopped for the kind of bracers they get today, no one would ever finish the parade...
...taken. Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House. He gave the word to Attorney General Knox. First there were investigations and publicity, then prosecutions. One after another, trusts were knocked on the head and compelled to disintegrate. In 1904 and 1905, the Northern Securities, the Beef Trust, the Addyston Pipe Co. were dispatched. Later came the Standard Oil case (which lasted for five years before the company lost and was dissolved) and the American Tobacco Co. case...
...journalists roared heartily, presented the Premier with "the finest pipe in the world." Mr. Baldwin thanked them, confessed that he had never spent more than three shillings (approx. 75?) on a pipe...
Prof. Michelson was nearing the end of his lecture. He told of the difficulties the experimenters encountered. An air leak developed in the pipe and some hundreds of joints had to be repainted. The jars of a train moving more than a mile away disordered the delicate instruments. Much of the work had to be done at night and in the early hours of the morning to avoid mechanical difficulties...