Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months later Lord heard from her again. Her conscience was bothering her. She was not Mollie Ticklepitcher at all, as Mr. Lord had so kindly supposed, but an actress with a tank town stock company. Only truth in her jest : she did have...
Outstanding needs include: anti-tank guns (none on hand; 228 on order); antiaircraft guns (a piddling 24 in service east of the Rocky Mountains; 338 ordered); semiautomatic, 30-round-per-minute rifles (8,000 in service; Army arsenals can produce 5,000 a year); gas masks (100,000 in service, 300,000 needed for the first-line fighters); heavy artillery (only four of the Army's new 155-millimeter field guns are in service); aircraft bombs (the War Department won't release the figures for fear of encouraging potential enemies...
...best Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League teams. Just why it has never joined the League is not clear, but this season the Bruins should rank after Harvard, Yale, and Princeton in Eastern swimming ratings. The order named above is this column's very much biased prediction of the 1939 tank struggles...
...merciful mask is held in place by straps fitting around the head, has two hollow tubes starting at each side of the nosepiece and curving clown to the chin, where they join a larger tube which runs to an oxygen bag connected with an oxygen tank. The mask permits a passenger to eat, talk and smoke while he inhales the soothing oxygen. The whole business, explained Dr. Boothby, is not as uncomfortable as it looks...
Harry Rawstrom, middle distance express, will be the strong point--and just about the only one of the Springfield tank team that meets the Crimson Varsity here this afternoon at 4:00 o'clock. Highlight of the meet should be the race between Rawstrom and Eric Cutler in the quarter-mile...