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Word: tanked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...meet a guy in the paddock and he takes you aside. "Listen," he says, "I got something in the next race. It's a shoo-in, a boat race, in the tank, the fix is on. And drop a sawbuck on for me. I'll meet you here later...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 5/20/1952 | See Source »

While the "cool" spectators in the bleachers sat on their hands, Lewis & Johnson dished up heated samplings of the rumbling boogie-woogie that they made popular in the '30s. Standout: Honky Tank Train, which 325-lb. Lux Lewis once pounded out with such energy that the piano collapsed into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jazz Package | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

...Gloria became bored and romped through his study. She dragged a bronze lamp across the room and heaved it into an aquarium. Then she unlocked a bookcase, removed Volumes 2 and 4 of Strumpel's textbooks of medicine, tore them to shreds and stuffed them in the fish tank. Lorenz returned to find fuses blown, empty book covers on the floor, and his sea anemones tangled in torn paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Patient Naturalist | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

...Zealand, on the other hand, is extremely homogenous, according to Griswold. Emphasizing the island's idyllic simplicity, he remarked that it you happen to drive into a certain gas station in the city of Christchurch the prime minister himself is likely to fill up your tank...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law Coffee Hour | 5/14/1952 | See Source »

...students in a tank...

Author: By Richard A. Burgheim, | Title: Goldfish Swallowing: College Fad Started Here, Spread Over World | 5/6/1952 | See Source »

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