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Word: balast (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...control cabin were 16 men including the master of the vessel, gallant, air-tested Lieutenant Commander Zachary Lansdowne. For two hours they had fought their ship this way and that through a series of pesky squalls. They had released helium. They had dumped into the storm their water-balast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shenandoah | 9/14/1925 | See Source »

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