Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty-five men started tank workouts under Ulen's direction, while 60 candidates for the 1942 team began the season's training presided over by Coach Larry A. (Pete) Peterson. The Varsity begins its season on December 17 when it will meet a formidable Alumni team including Charlie Hutter, last year's captain and star, possibly Bill Kendall, Australian flash, and backstroker Graham Cummin, former intercollegiate record-holder...
While helpless Mr. Turrou was on the griddle, the prosecution introduced two documents signed by Mechanic Voss. They attested that he had dealt with Captain-Lieutenant Erich Pfeiffer of the German naval intelligence service, supplying him with data including a fuel tank design. Voss found the plans in a Seversky garbage...
Forty-four swimmers are now reporting daily to Coach Hal Ulen for conditioning exercises and short pool workouts, in preparation for one of the toughest seasons ever experienced by a Crimson tank squad...
Main drawback to Hore-Belisha's scheme to mechanize and equip this reorganized army is lack of weapons. Because of Britain's still-lagging rearmament program, even the Regular Army is not adequately supplied with heavy machine guns, anti-tank and antiaircraft devices, and observers are of the opinion that it will be many months before sufficient arms can be spared for the Terriers...
...dank, smelly meadows of Linden, N.J. are pimpled with an enormous collection of oil tanks-30 belonging to Sinclair, 175 to Cities Service, 800 to Standard Oil of New Jersey-huddled closely around one of the largest U.S. refineries (Standard's). One day last week a Cities Service tank of ethyl gasoline blew up with force enough to toss its top 150 yards. A flaming geyser of 1,680,000 gallons of gasoline in a few minutes was splattering a dozen other tanks. By midnight 18 tanks had collapsed into a scarlet pool of blazing oil. Watchers got scorched...