Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mainland, meanwhile, the Army began operations with the cards stacked in its favor: with far superior equipment, with new determination to jack its sagging morale, with the knowledge that Britain and France were no longer the whalebones in China's financial corset. The Army's greatest blessing was that it no longer had Russia to fear. Soldiers read reports from Domei, the official news agency, telling that in the no man's land of the Manchukuo-Outer Mongolian border, a Japanese lieutenant colonel and a Soviet major general stepped from cars decorated with white flags and shook...
...pact between him and James John ("Jimmie") Walker, nimble-witted onetime mayor of New York City, by which the survivor will deliver the other's funeral oration. Showman Jessel has spoken 50 eulogies in the last 15 years. Most memorable one, over the body of Broadway Comedian Jack Osterman last June: "Mr. God, they say you've got a great big heart, so give the boy a great big hand...
...fair-minded fans, aware that Louis had set up such a high pugilistic standard that for him anything short of a one-round knockout was a big black demerit, applauded his prowess. In 43 professional fights-since the night in 1934 when he got $50 for knocking out one Jack Kracken-the Brown Bomber has been defeated only once (by Max Schmeling), has knocked out all but seven of his opponents, including five onetime world's champions (Braddock, Camera, Baer, Sharkey, Schmeling), has successfully defended his title eight times in the past two years. This record gives Joe Louis...
Every now & then some pseudo-scientific jack-in-the-box pops up with an alleged death ray. Nearest approach to a real death ray is the 19-million-volt stream of subatomic particles produced at the University of California by Ernest Orlando Lawrence's giant new cyclotron. This 225-ton machine, whose operators shield themselves by water-tank barricades, can kill white mice and destroy cancer cells at popgun range. Installed in a front-line trench it would have less effect on an enemy soldier at 50 feet than one well-aimed rifle bullet...
...speech at Danzig last week (see p. 20), uttered a dark hint that Germany possesses a secret and unique weapon. This threat stirred Professor Archibald M. Low, A.C.G.I., M.I.A.E., F.C.S., F.I.P.I., F.R.A., F.R.G.S., F.G.S., D.Sc., Ph.D., F. Inst. Arb. to retaliate. Professor Low is a British television pioneer and jack-of-all-science who worked for the British Government in the last war, invented a wireless control gear for torpedoes. After some scientific snickers at death rays and bacteriological bombs, Professor Low growled: "Whether Hitler has any horrors or not to produce at the moment...