Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Suddenly Ethiopian firing opened on all sides. Our officer was killed and the men leaped from the cannons and ran. The drivers of the leading tank were shot, and as that tank blocked the way of the other nine they, too, were forced to halt. Two of us were in the last tank. We saw men climb out of the others to be shot in short order. We remained inside and when the Ethiopians came they opened the door which we had forgotten to lock. We called out 'Friends' and we were not injured...
Last week, as he made ready to re-enter the pulpit, "Dan" Poling was 51, just beginning to grey. Since he is no Baptist, the congregation of Grace Temple expected him to make less use of their 60-foot marble immersion tank where white carnations are kept floating during baptismal services. Dr. Poling will probably omit flowers, allow a microphone to overshadow the tank...
...lives of even Bengal Lancers are soon to reek of gasoline & grease, handsome young War Secretary Alfred Duff Cooper had nevertheless done the best he could for his cavalry friends. He might have enlarged His Majesty's existing Tank Corps and other highly developed mechanized units gradually, while disbanding little by little the men on horseback. Instead, the horse cavalry are to dismount and step aboard machines, keeping their jobs and becoming mechanized cavalry. In the humble opinion of British technicians who today comprise the Tank Corps, it is going to be a rare sight to behold the horsy...
Seventy-three crewmen are churning the waters of the tank under the direction of Bert Haines...
...theoretical lever with which the old Greek said he could move the world. It is a hydraulic press, in which is utilized the fact that a piston bearing on a small area of a confined liquid delivers its pressure against every other area of equal size in the tank. Thus if a force of 100 lb. is brought against a piston one square inch in cross section, the force transferred through the liquid to a 1,000 sq. in. piston is 100,000 lb. The catch is that to make apparatus able to stand such a stress is a delicate...