Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Informed by French rustics that he could not get to Andorra through the mountain roads, buried 20 feet under snow drifts, he snorted: "If I had my null der car which cost $32,000 I'd go through these roads like a tank...
...Yale coach, as saying that Harvard has the best swim squad in the East this year. The metropolitan newspapers frequently flash large headlines acclaiming Harvard as possibly the strongest team in the country. Whether these and other optimistic predictions are based on fact can be proved only in the tank for the next few Saturdays...
Shocked was France to learn that search by State operatives of 450 homes and shops in all parts of the country had netted by this week: 120,000 rifle and pistol cartridges; 500 machine guns; 65 submachine guns; several anti-tank and anti-aircraft guns; 17 sawed-off shotguns and 134 rifles, together with two tons of high explosives. Antique dealers, garage proprietors, members of the nobility and bargemen were among those arrested...
...indoor tank was put into operation yesterday for the first time, and the float and most of the motor boats will be taken in tomorrow. As Yale and most of the other colleges will be ending their outdoor seasons this week, the crew men will not be at any disadvantage...
...expected that all Freshman crew prospects who are not wizards at some other type of winter sport will stick to this less spectacular indoor rowing until spring once more opens the Charles River to their activities. From now on the tank is open...