Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...street car stands on the track where it was stopped early in the week to save electricity. My bath tub is full of water for what we know in these days as "flushing." Three blocks away in the centre of my hilltop suburb is an enormous black iron tank with Legionnaires in charge, where I may get water. We boil it, we boil all water, as Mr. Dykstra instructs, but water has been provided. We are using again at the request of the City Hall, canned vegetables instead of fresh to save water...
Work will start in earnest on Monday when tentative seatings will be announced for the first time, and the crews will drill in the tank until the ice goes...
Under the appraising eye of Coach Tom Boiles, a continuous procession of eights kept Newel tank churned yesterday afternoon in the first session of a long crew campaign, a campaign that consists of an almost unbroken series of daily workouts stretching from the end of midyears until the final sprint at New London...
...Everts successfully tested an experimental model, returned it to the shop to iron out minor kinks. Before next summer he expects to have several full-size units on duty in the woods. Dry ice costs only 4? per Ib. and one filling provides enough power to empty the water tank ten times...
...three cans of beer in the tank beneath the pump and was planning to fill it with enough to last 24 hours of steady pumping. "I figured that would be enough for one day," he added thoughtfully...