Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While torch and head-gear fell...
Rain and storm fought the U. S. fliers, journeying from Manhattan to Washington in their attempt to keep an appointment with their Commander-in-Chief, the President of the U. S. A worn-out gear brought Lient. Nelson down near Baltimore, and he was obliged to continue in an escorting plane. A dense fog at Aberdeen, Md., brought down the whole exhibition for lunch and rest till the weather cleared. For four hours the presidential party waited in drizzling rain at Boiling Field. But Mr. Coolidge took the matter good-naturedly, welcomed the national heroes with unabated enthusiasm, examined every...
...Manhattan, faintly groggy after sailing through a North Atlantic hurricane, displaying sprigs of heather in their buttonholes, the ten British golfers that will challenge the U. S. for possession of the Walker Cup, brought themselves and their links-gear ashore, set off for practice at Garden City, L. I., where the International Matches are to be played Sept. 12 and 13. Their ponderous leader, Cyril Tolley, "siege gun of British golf," French Open Champion and onetime (1920) British Amateur Champion, declared that they might be a stronger team had they with them E. W. E. Holderness (British Amateur Champion...
...double pontoon. By passing cables under the hull of a destroyer and attaching hooks, it was hoped that the destroyer could be lifted in two days. The first attempt was a failure. The cables snapped after the destroyer had been lifted seven feet; the lifting-gear was badly 'damaged...
...fuselage rests solidly on a metal pontoon, and with the landing gear drawn up, the craft is a seaplane. But let the pilot press on a button, and a small electric motor, driven by a storage battery, releases landing wheels at the side of the pontoon, draws them out and downward and in eleven seconds the craft is a land plane. In the first tests the amphibian made 30 landings alternately on land and water without a hitch...