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Word: tanked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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PRINCETON, N. J., Mar. 3--Captain Dick Hough and his Princeton swimming team--the greatest obstacle to a Harvard tank team since Yale's 1937 mer men--will attempt to assert their invincibility tomorrow night against Rusty Greenhood and his mates in Brokaw Pool...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, (SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: TIGERS HOPE TO SINK SWIMMERS AT NASSAU | 3/4/1939 | See Source »

...ballyhoo surrounding this year's Tiger tank edition is mindful of the good burghers of Hanover, but Dick Hough, Ned Parke, and A1 Van de Weghe are certainly food for thought. Call the Orange and Black favorites for Saturday, but make the Crimson dark horses of a very light hue for the meet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson to Face Strong Athletes Tomorrow Night | 3/3/1939 | See Source »

...Only sure, scientific method of determining whether an organ is cancerous is microscopic analysis. With a sharp, hollow steel needle a pathologist draws from a suspected growth a bit of living tissue, which is immediately frozen by a stream of carbon dioxide from a high-pressure tank. Then it is cut into thin sections and mounted on a microscope slide. The whole procedure takes only a few minutes, is usually performed while a patient lies on the operating table. If microscopic examination shows that the cells are malignant, a surgeon can start to operate at once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Handbook | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Divorced. Burleigh Grimes, 45, crack spitball pitcher of the 19205; from his second wife, Laura Virginia Grimes ; in Union, Mo. Charge: "general indignities." Died. Mrs. Charles W. Gamble ("Mollie Ticklepitcher"), 51; of cancer; in Jasper, Tenn. A tank town actress, she hoaxed Phillips Lord into letting her speak over his We, the People radio program by passing herself off as a backwoods midwife (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 20, 1939 | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Though They Made Me a Criminal is little better than a narrative stencil, Di rector Busby Berkeley and his cast gave the picture enough vigor, detail and pace to make it first-rate entertainment. Good sequence : Johnnie and the Dead End kids going swimming in an irrigation tank, and getting trapped when the owner starts let ting out the water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 30, 1939 | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

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