Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...girl's turn. She sprinted to her battered car, started the engine and set off after the other driver as he drove off. For a block and a half she kept to the chase, but her gallant car had gas pouring from its ripped tank and it was going out of action. It sputtered, stopped...
Guppies react much the same way. During the war, White was trying to trace the complicated track of the silent waves as they bounced around inside a tank of water. Baffled by their gyrations, he bought a school of guppies and dumped them into the tank. The little fish lined right up to outline the waves...
...cavalry and firehorse-piloting period is over, but Bert Haines' sculling genius is very much a thing of the present. In addition to making a single fly as though possessed, he can get in the tank and row any first-boat man into collapse. His aim, though, is not so much to demonstrate, or "teach"-- Bert feels it is a matter of bringing out what a good man has through a "midwife" approach to coaching. This requires not scorn, or a drive-drive-drive psychology, but rather an incalculable patience and humor with green men who shoot their seat-slide...
...every Mexican knew that the foot-&-mouth war was on. Motoring city folk met it on the highways where olive-grey-clad soldiers had set up roadblocks. Cars were stopped while passengers tramped through a box filled with caustic soda-saturated sawdust. Then the cars slushed through a cement tank of the solution. Far & wide over the area of battle* Army planes patrolled, spotting cattle for ground troops. Once found, the beasts were slaughtered and quickly buried. In the costly offensive against aftosa-foot-&-mouth disease-there could be no quarter...
Although official Varsity swimming practice has been over since last week, the waters of the University pool are currently being churned by some of the finest waterwork ever seen in these United States. Working out twice daily in the Indoor Athletic Building tank is the aquatic world's newest luminary, French-speaking Alexander Jany...