Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bendix. Major figure of last year's races was gaudy, swashbuckling Roscoe Turner, who won the Bendix Trophy hands down. Strong favorite to win this year's Bendix, Colonel Turner (California National Guard) was scratched 15 minutes before the start by a leaky fuel tank. Three pilots were left in the race. Flying the famed red-and-black Wedell-Williams "44," a drawling Atlantan named Douglas Davis took off from Burbank before dawn without breakfast. Headwinds, rain and fog cut his speed to 212 m. p. h., brought him to Cleveland an hour behind the course record but in plenty...
Five thousand Italian officers and a group of foreign military attaches tramped across a dusty field outside Bologna toward the grey hulk of a heavy tank. Maneuvers were over and Benito Mussolini, standing legs astraddle on the turret of the tank, was ready to deliver a final oration before troops were dismissed...
...have shaken the sober townfolk out of their skins. Two blocks from Pasadena's busiest corner, Crown City Plating Co. electroplates chromium, gold, brass, silver, copper. A swart little man named Wallace Foreman was mixing sulphuric acid and glycerin to make an electrolyte for plating. Already in the tank were 75 gal. of acid and 2 gal. of glycerin. Thinking to add more acid, Wallace Foreman picked up a 3-gal. container, dumped in the contents. Unluckily the container held not sulphuric but nitric acid. Nitric acid plus sulphuric acid plus glycerin makes nitroglycerin...
...swims the same way, with an extraordinary glide between long and languid-looking strokes. This is partly due to the fact that McKean and Madison had the same coach ? Ray Daughters of Seattle's Washington A. C., who uses an outboard motor to churn up the tank in which his pupils practice, advises them to eat raw vegetables and milk...
...tumor in its early stage," said Inventor Simjian. "Another very important point is that for the first time it becomes possible to illuminate blood vessels." Among other photographic devices invented by Mr. Simjian are a fogged silver screen for projecting microscopic photographs, a self-focusing camera, an automatic developing tank, a system of mirrors and a camera with which a subject can photograph any desired aspect of his face, and a set of mirrors for dress and hat shops inside which the customer stands while she sees her figure or head slowly revolve...