Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Armed with brand-new gas masks, which supply compressed air from a portable tank, rescue men often face danger where "Boston firemen can't go in," according to one member of the staff. Workers often enter home-made gas chambers when an old-fashioned refrigerator breaks down and befumes the air, creating a problem firemen call the "lousiest...
...best tennis player in the world was not usually so inept at his new profession as he was last week. In the past year, he had driven his Mercury some 35,000 miles and slept in many a hotel bed too short for his 6 ft. 2 in. No tank-town tourney was too small for him; he played in 44 big & little ones, a grind that would wear out most pro golfers. By sheer persistence, he had earned $12,000 in prize money (compared to $50,000 his first season as a tennis pro). His score varied between seven...
Housed in this latest major addition to University buildings is the already famous Mark I. This is not a German tank but a 51-foot great-grandchild of the humble adding machine, The International Business Machines Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator. This shiny mathematical genius, composed of 765,299 parts and 530 miles of wire, has already been at work for the Navy for two years on complex problems of ship construction and ordnance in the basement of Cruft Laboratory...
...show's low high: the third act, when Bert, in a burlesque act that was old when he got his start on the tank-town circuit, gives the show his signature-an awesome, tooth-rattling blast from the incomparable Lahrynx...
...writing was on the wall after the first event, with a medley trie of Hob Branard, Chuck Hoolzer, and Stove Wise each contributing part of a half tank final margin. In the 220-yard freestyle, Jerry Gorman of the Varsity was more than a match for last year's distance ace, Ted Norris...