Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...practice, for several squad-members are still at large. Sophomore freestyler Lonnie Stowell will compete for the first time this season. He has been out with a cold. All in all, the contest is not expected to draw many fans to the pool balcony except dyed-in-the-wool tank enthusiasts...
...Carnegie apparatus stores static electricity on a big electrode inside an inverted pear-shaped steel tank, 55 ft. high- only the big end of which is visible from the exterior (see cut)-discharges its high voltage in direct current. It does not speed its projectiles to such high energies as are obtainable with the "cyclotron," but the Carnegie and Westinghouse researchers claim an advantage for precision measurements in the fact that their voltage is controlled and steady...
Captain George Truman at guard is the only other veteran, because Sophomores Bob Person and Tank Wilson have ousted Seniors Giles MacEwen and Bill Glatfelder from the center and guard jobs respectively. The Bears will present a tall crew tonight, and again the Feslermen will have to operate under a height disadvantage. The game is scheduled to get under way at about 8:45 o'clock...
...when he clung to his key in the radio shack of the burning liner Morro Castle, risked the death that overtook 124 others. Having joined the Bayonne, N. J. police radio squad as a patrolman, Hero Rogers was headlined again last March after he handed an electrical "fish tank heater" to his friend and chief, Lieutenant Vincent J. Doyle. The package exploded, nipping three fingers from Lieutenant Doyle's left hand, paralyzing his left leg, laying Hero Rogers open to the suspicion that he was after the lieutenant's job. Last week in Jersey City, Common Pleas Judge...
...Driver Silcox stopped, looked, listened. Then he started across the tracks. The 48-car Flying Ute, which Driver Silcox seems neither to have seen nor heard, at that instant roared out of the storm, screamed its warning and struck. A young bo named Witter, who was riding an icy tank car near the engine, jumped out in the snow to see what had happened. "It was the awfullest thing I ever saw," he said...