Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Burgundy Gate" or "Belfort Gap" just above the Swiss border, another into the Moselle valley just below Luxembourg. Masses of mobile troops were ready for infiltration maneuvers, to penetrate between gaps in the West Wall which, unlike the Maginot Line, is rather a series of sunken forts with tank traps and interlocking underground tunnels, than a continuous defense bastion. First "contact" (man to man) fighting was known to be on German soil, in the hell-raked strip between the two Lines. For an invasion of Germany, France is far better off now than in 1914 for she holds Alsace-Lorraine...
Straightforward military technological improvement has proceeded apace in some fields, especially the speed and versatility of tanks, the accuracy of aerial bombing, the range and speed of airplanes. Yet the most effective innovation of the Spanish civil war was a crude anti-tank weapon- bottles of gasoline wrapped in burning rags which were hurled at Insurgent tanks by Loyalist infantry. And the record for long-distance artillery fire is still held by the monster guns with which, during World War I, the Germans shelled Paris from a wood 70-odd miles away...
...have to prick up their ears. The din was deafening enough to split eardrums less inured. Around them boomed the 72 bells of the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Carillon, loudest and biggest in the U. S. The biggest of these bells weighed as much as a good-sized army tank, the loudest of them could be heard in the neighboring State of New Jersey. But to the 17 listeners this tintinnabulation was a concord of sweet sound. For they were members of the North American Guild of Carillonneurs, and they were hearing some pretty hot carillonning...
...sinewed crew men row during the fall and winter to develop form and stamina for the gruelling spring schedule. When ice-breaking becomes too hazardous for the frail prows of the Crimson shells, Coaches Harvey Love and Bert Haines bring their charges indoors in Newell to practice in the tank...
...morning last week a man from the County Clerk's office went to the Snite house in River Forest, a suburb west of Chicago, and issued a marriage license for Fred and Teresa. A few minutes later with Fred beaming from his 900-lb. iron tank, a priest married them. When newshawks arrived Snite Sr. met them at the gate, told them it was all over, took them in to see the newlyweds, who were about to start on a one-day wedding trip to Wisconsin in Fred's trailer...