Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...principle*made it all easy. In the hippo's tank they rigged up a contraption consisting of a hollow tube (stuck vertically in the water) enclosing a float attached to a moving arm arranged to swing around a marked scale. (On the basis of Archimedes' principle, the markings had been calibrated to register the weight of the water displaced, easily calculated from water's known weight by volume...
Werner Schwalb, a staunch Nazi for most of his 31 years, joined the German Army in 1937. As a tank gunner he won an Iron Cross in the invasion of France. He was with Rommel in North Africa. Then he was captured, and that finished him as a soldier. But not as a Nazi...
Soon Pressed Steel hired Murphy away from the purchasing commission, made him a vice president in charge of tank production. He worked 17 hours a day seven days a week, often slept in his office, bragged: "This outfit eats production schedules for breakfast...
Throw Out the Lifeline. In Schenectady, N.Y., a jury awarded Elizabeth Holmes $10,000 for injuries received when she fell into the First Baptist Church's empty baptismal tank...
...five-strap leather harness, to keep his arms and legs from dangling. A couple of his cronies, invited in for the event, were asked to sing his favorite hymn, Life's Railway to Heaven. A minister said a prayer. Tom cracked a joke. Water trickled out of a tank; the trap was sprung...