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Word: tanked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anent Sir Philip Gibbs and "Winkles on Pins" (TiME, Nov. 6, p. 28), does not British tank officer's "dark saying" burst into klieg-light clarity when quoted as ". . . he was the winkle in [not on] the pin if war should ever begin in earnest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Robert N. White '41, reliable distance swimmer on Coach Hal Ulon's tank squad, was stricken with appendicitis and operated on last Monday. He is recovering in the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and is expected to be ready for intercollegiate competition after Christmas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bob White Recovering | 11/23/1939 | See Source »

...destination, a biological supply house in Chicago. The can was opened, the cylindrical mold of dried mud delicately picked away, the lungfish removed. It was alive. The fish, gaunt from its fast, made a sort of barking noise by rapidly expelling air from its lungs. When placed in a tank it soon became spry as ever. (See the top 10 new species...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Champion Laggard | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Heil Co. (President, Wisconsin's Governor Julius ["The Just"] Heil): tank trailers built rigidly enough so that no supporting frame is necessary to hold up their bellies; hydraulic dump trailer for ten-wheel gravel hauling units...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Trucks, A.D. 1940 | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...Wood Industries, Inc.: a garbage truck body with a hydraulic ram tailboard which, as garbage is dumped in at the rear, presses it forward, squeezes garbage juice into a tank. Claims: dry garbage burns better, squashed garbage takes up less room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Trucks, A.D. 1940 | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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