Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winter grind in the Newell tank and the miles of arduous pulling on the river, Bolles likens, picturesquely, to a historian's reading in the Widener stacks. It is a self-satisfying labor, accompanied by a feeling that "we have made the effort, even if we don't excel." Of the American sports enthusiast who follows and plays football, baseball, and basketball for his team athletics, and who wonders why anyone would take up crew, Bolles smiles wisely and asks, "Have you ever rowed...
Although intensive training has only been underway for the past ten days, Bolles has had his boys working out informally all winter in the Newell indoor tank where artificial currents simulate natural rowing conditions. Practice on the Charles will still emphasize form and style until the second week in April when Bolles will start using the stop-watch...
Peggy (dining at right) is the first porpoise to be born alive in captivity. Her 350-lb. mother, Pudgy, gave birth last week in a tank at the Marineland, Fla. Marine Studios. In less than half a minute Pudgy had pushed her calf, an air-breathing mammal, up to the surface to draw her first breath. In an hour and a half Peggy, with all a mammal's proper instincts, was having her first meal...
...services or the OSS. About 150 of these went into actual production; some 600 more are still in the testing stage. Some of the most successful: ¶The Army's portable mine detector, invented by a Miami electrician to help a neighbor find buried pirate gold. ¶A tank-driven mine detonator. ¶ A long-lasting walkie-talkie battery for use in the tropics...
...Gregor's mouth Novelist Blunden has put three stories, in the manner of Gogol, Chekhov and Dostoevsky respectively. Interspersed with these are chapters of action: Ivan at the front, stopping a Nazi light tank 25 kilometers from Moscow; his lieutenant, Kostia, dying in a hospital after a double amputation; Rachel's son, Karl, starving in a concentration camp to which he had been sent for remarking that Hitler's strategy was "cunning." Karl's hatred of the regime that imprisoned him hardens into conviction...