Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russia should choose to strike with mechanized forces these would have to roll directly up from Leningrad into the narrow, flat Finnish terrain between the Gulf and Lake Laatokka, Europe's largest lake. On this strategic gateway Finland has massed her only heavy fortifications, concrete pillbox forts and tank traps which Finnish soldiers last week worked furiously to strengthen...
...Priests gave anti-tank prayers hoping to prevent Russian tanks from crossing the Dnestr River where the Poles blew up the bridge. But the tanks crossed despite the prayers and encircled obstacles which the priests had blessed and behind which the Poles had hidden. When the tanks approached the priests fled into the forests...
...Catholic "regular" priests (in religious orders), 8,000 were mobilized last week. Leading in numbers were Jesuits, Christian Brothers and the peaceable Franciscans. Typical fighting fathers: Franciscan Aviation Captain Boigerolles; Pere Godefroy of the White Fathers, second lieutenant in the Senegalese sharpshooters; Jesuit Father Carre, in the tank corps...
Under the direction of Varsity Coach Hal Ulen and "Pete" Peterson, Freshman mentor, over 40 Yardling natators are going through a six week course of conditioning exercises in preparation for the tank season. Work in the Indoor Athletic Building pool will not start until late in November...
...pops up with an alleged death ray. Nearest approach to a real death ray is the 19-million-volt stream of subatomic particles produced at the University of California by Ernest Orlando Lawrence's giant new cyclotron. This 225-ton machine, whose operators shield themselves by water-tank barricades, can kill white mice and destroy cancer cells at popgun range. Installed in a front-line trench it would have less effect on an enemy soldier at 50 feet than one well-aimed rifle bullet...