Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bert thinks his rowers will be in good form when they meet MIT Saturday, April 23, thanks largely to the early outdoor start the mild winter allowed. There was plenty of outdoor fall practice, as well as winter workouts in the tank, but it's the springtime work on the Charles that means most. During spring vacation Haines three shells plan to row twice daily...
Tall, 23-year-old William L. Cox is a cocky, capable truckman and he drives a big rig-a tractor and a double-tank trailer. Some of his admiring fellow truckers would say that sharp-eyed Billy could roll his rig through an oven door without jarring the roast...
...next hour, firemen poured water on the tractor and Billy from relays of tank trucks. They laid an asbestos blanket over Billy who crouched down on the seat, told his rescuers nonchalantly: "Take it easy." Then a water truck ran dry, and firemen watched helplessly as flames licked at Billy. The steel cab began to glow dull red, and Billy began to scream. He writhed under the scorching heat, begged someone to shoot him. "I don't want to go out this way," he cried. The skin on Billy's back was raw and burned dead-white...
...took off and headed east. Nine hundred miles away, he waved goodbye to a B-17 which had gone with him for company. Six hours later he waved hello to another which came out to escort him over San Francisco. Over Chicago, he failed to notice that a gas tank had gone dry, lost several thousand feet before he could get his stalled engine started from another tank. Over Pennsylvania, he plugged in an electric razor and shaved. Then he landed his plane at Teterboro (N.J.) Air Terminal, just 36 hours and 5,300 miles away from Honolulu. Average speed...
...many of his trustees, he insisted on opening the first graduate school of nursing in the U.S. He was proud of the fact that he had built the tallest structure in New Haven (the 253-ft. Harkness Tower), professed to be bitterly disappointed when a gas company built a tank seven feet higher on the other side of town...