Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Doug Erickson is looking very well now and Bill Huenekins, a rival. Pete Burr of last year's Freshmen is looking much better on the river than he ever did in the tank during the winter and therefore looms as a possibility for this position...
Nothing of importance was found on Spy Rumrich but crude drawings of a plane and a tank. Spy Hofmann who spoke no English and whose orange-colored hair showed traces of dye, was arrested on the Europa with several letters she had been engaged to deliver, including one offering $1,000 for information about the Navy aircraft carriers Enterprise and Yorktown. Rumrich and Glaser had both been stationed during their Army service in the Canal Zone. Only document of importance which it was suggested they might have stolen was a copy of the secret codes of the Air Service...
...black-browed fatalist of 24, Capa has strung along with Leftist attacks lightly armed with a Leica. His wife, Photographer Gerda Taro, was crushed by a Leftist tank last year during the retreat from Brunete. Capa's work in Spain has made him one of the world's great photographers and last week's exhibition was his first in the U. S. It was also a nearly definitive collection of Capa's Spanish photographs. For after more than a year of pictorial reporting, interrupted only by a brief visit to the U. S. last autumn, Robert...
Since Franklin Roosevelt is easily the world's most newsworthy personage and since the questioners are presumably the world's ablest newsgatherers, it is obviously impossible to believe that such a meeting could actually occur without producing anything more printable than a conference of kerosene tank politicians in a mud-flat filling station. Nine times out of ten, however, that is what happens. The correspondents can rarely think of anything worthwhile to ask the President; if they do the convention of mystery that surrounds all sorts of government impels the President to demonstrate his unique ability...
Eight varsity crews and about seven lightweights took their place on the tank during the afternoon. The lineups for the first two varsity boats were as follows...