Word: pinged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Motor knocks are caused by a part of the fuel burning too rapidly, causing pressure and temperature changes characterized by a sharp "ping." Knocking quality is measured in octane, a 100% antiknock laboratory fluid. Most regular-grade automobile gas is about 70 octane. By polymerization Phillips Pete developed 100 octane gas-useless for modern automobiles but invaluable for airplane engines, which must get maximum efficiency and sudden "burst" response on take-off or emergencies. Howard Hughes used 100 octane gas provided by Standard Oil on part of his round-the-world flight, and it is increasingly in demand in military...
...want to be hot at ping-pong, start training on scotch and soda early in life," James M. Jacobson 1B, former national table tennis champion advised ping-pong hopefuls in an interview yesterday...
Death and personal injury indemnification - for the death of two members of the crew of the Panay and the captain of the Mei Ping, and injury of 74 other persons on board the Panay and other vessels...
...Embassy by a subordinate official of the Japanese Foreign Office. Thus the Imperial Japanese Government paid in full as quietly as possible the following itemized bill, presented by Uncle Sam after Japanese bombers sank the U. S. river gunboat Panay and Standard Vacuum Oil Co.'s tankers Met Ping, Mei Hsia and Mei An (TIME, Dec. 20) : Property losses - Navy Dept...
...moving the Ping-Pong tables to the basement, where players have asserted they are willing to carry on, what is now a game room could easily be turned into a reading room. At present non-residents can study only in the common room, where piano playing, chess and checker games, and conversations are liable to interrupt the quiet at any moment. Books can be acquired with almost as little trouble and expense as a room. Out of the vastness of Widener Library a few books can well be spared to start the collection at Dudley Hall. The commuters themselves will...