Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five-lap lead. Adapting his pace to that of his nearest rivals, whose progress was signalled to him by his pit crew, Meyer held his speed till five miles from the end, then reduced it to 98 m.p.h. to save gas. With one pint of gas left in his tank, he finished one lap ahead of Ted Horn of Los Angeles...
...water from the old well, was also a cause for much discussion, and tests were made of the well water by the College. These tests showed that the water was not pure enough to risk infection by users of the pump. So present plans are to sink a tank in the upper part of the old well, which will be filled by the less historic but purer water from the City mains...
Maintenance Department men are at the moment engaged in filling up the hole made in searching for the well, making connections with the city water system, and putting in a cement platform at the bottom of the spring. On this platform will sit an iron tank filled out of the city mains on a float system. From the tank water will be taken by a wooden pump, a replica of the old one. Pieces for this were purchased in various parts of New Hampshire, and the average age of the new water lifter should be 20 years...
Many have probably already been disillusioned by learning that the drilling was to fertilize the ground, and that the big hole is to accommodate a tank in connection with the pump which is going to replace the old one, blown up in 1901 and last seen hurtling through the air in the general direction of Kansas City...
...showed how a brilliant scientist may adapt for his own use a technique worked out for a wholly differ ent purpose. At California Institute of Technology, Dr. John Donovan Strong has been coating telescope mirrors with a thin, even layer of aluminum by placing the glass in a vacuum tank, boiling the aluminum off an electric coil so that the aluminum vapor deposits itself on the glass. At Johns Hopkins Dr. Wood used the same method for laying down on his plates first a thin coat of hard chromium, then a layer of soft aluminum. To make diffraction gratings...