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Word: tankful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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More recently, Venture decided that maybe he might, after all, offer a miracle. He had read news dispatches about artificial rainmaking in the U.S., resolved to have a go at it. He equipped a Peruvian air force plane with a rubber water tank, personally flew off to sprinkle a fat cumulus cloud over the Andean foothills. Rain fell, but it was in an area where it often rains at this time of year. Next day, Pedro was in the air again, with dry ice, found a cloud over the desert. The dry-ice ejector got stuck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERU: Rainmaker | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

...addition to the merman and the varsity, hockey and basketball squads, whose schedules have already been printed, the freshman and jayvee sextets and the yardling bucket brigade and tank corps all meet the Blue on the same date. A home meet with Yale winds up the season for the Jayvee quintet on March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H.A.A. Adds Six Teams To Winter Sports Slates | 12/12/1947 | See Source »

...division of opinion prevailed among the judges at Williams Lake, New York, last August, as Norris led the field of the best long distance performers on the continent in 1500 meters. A light wind made the water choppy, but the powerful armstroke developed in the Indoor Athletic Building tank over three years of grueling practice paid...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: Egg In Your Beer | 12/9/1947 | See Source »

Allowing the Alumni only two first places, Hal Ulen's varsity swimming team left the Coach's former pupils in the wake of a 47 to 19 score in their traditional opener, Saturday night in the Indoor Athletic Building tank...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alumni Show Loss Of Tank Savvy as They Bow, 47-19 | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...Order of Lenin and two Stalin prizes (the last for his swirling, furiously rhythmic ballet, Gayane, a U.S. best-seller). He made a big hit with the Russian public during the war by returning one of his 50,000-ruble Stalin prizes ($10,000) and asking that a tank be built with the money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rising Russian | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

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