Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Created by accident after a crash, it has climbed to some of the greatest heights, endured some of the dizziest falls of any concern in the business. Last week, true to form, after a long anxious glide Boeing was once more roaring upward with new gallons in the gas tank and prosperity at the joystick...
...natural historian named John Woodward grew spearmint, potatoes and vetch in water from springs and rivers. First experiments which involved adding nutrient chemicals to the water are credited to a German named Knop (1859). Growing commercial crops in water is another matter. At Berkeley, Dr. Gericke aimed at producing tank crops which would economically compete with or surpass soil-grown crops. So successful was he that several California vegetable and flower growers have changed to water culture, more than a dozen branch experiment stations have been opened, and Dr. Gericke enjoys a "fan mail" of some 500 letters a week...
...chemicals which Dr. Gericke adds to his water are those which ordinary plants need and get from the soil-calcium, magnesium, potassium, nitrogen, sulphur, phosphorus, iron, boron, manganese, copper, zinc. Wire netting is stretched over the top of the tanks and packed with excelsior or sawdust in which the seeds are planted and from which roots sprout down into the water. This bed of litter on the netting serves to support the stalks after the plants are grown. Each tank has an area of .01 acre. In one of these Dr. Gericke grew 1,224 lb. of tomatoes, in another...
...ears splash in the tank as boatload after boatload of prospective Varsity oarsmen work out, smiling Tom Bolles declines to commit himself in any way on who will be in that first boat that starts against Princeton towards the end of April, or, of more importance, of just who he thinks is going to win that race. But one impression is definitely gained in that boathouse: the crew that does wear the Crimson in that and succeeding races will have plenty of spirit, and they will represent the best that one of the country's best coaches can produce...
...have gotten onto the Charles. Bolles will row four Varsity crews until the Easter recess and three thereafter. The fifties will turn out to Bert Haines on Thursday, and Harvey Dave, whom Bolles brought with him from Washington to coach the Freshmen, has his squad working out in the tank on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays