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Word: tankful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Biggest difference between the present automatic washer and the new machine is the drying system. The tank of the Rand washer is lined with rubber. To dry clothes, the water and air are sucked out by a motor-driven pump, creating a vacuum which 1) causes the rubber to collapse, squeezing the clothing dry, and 2) lowers the boiling point of the water that remains until it turns into steam and passes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW PRODUCTS: Revolution No. 2 | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

Most U.S. correspondents were in the Astor Hotel and they had a grandstand view of the fighting, in which 300 died. Cabled TIME Correspondent Tom Dozier: "Outside the hotel lie the bodies of two men and one woman who climbed atop one of the tanks that moved through the mob to defend the Presidential Palace. Government riflemen lying prone in the street popped them off at short range. One fell beneath the tank's treads and his head was crushed. It is not a pretty sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Upheaval | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

Dunster's champion quintet will play host to Timothy Dwight College of Yale at Hemenway this afternoon, as the Lowell swimmers, winners in intramural tank competition this winter, travel to New Haven to tackle Silliman in its home waters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dunster. Lowell Teams Meet Eli College Champions Today | 3/20/1948 | See Source »

...their second week under Communist control, most Czechs were still numb with shock. Some nurtured a newborn hope for a new war soon. In Pilsen a Czech said to a departing American friend: "The next time you come, I hope you come in a tank." Others, by the hundreds, fled into the U.S. zone of Germany. Said one: "I never thought that Czechs would turn to Germany for refuge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: I Never Thought | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

...dozen straight victories over the Eli practically exudes confidence about his Olympic-year prospects, although the Charles River still flows invisibly under a cover of ice and his muscular charges still are doing their only rowing is boats that stay still while the water flows past--the Newell boathouse tank...

Author: By Charles W. Balley, | Title: Lining Them Up | 3/11/1948 | See Source »

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