Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Forward Gaze, Reverse Gear...
...they would have boasted that there was more water, better water, than in London. "Why do you ask me such things as details of Ethiopian defense? Water will defeat the Italians for me. I have to do nothing." Meanwhile Italy's engineer corps worked their well-digging gear furiously last week on all fronts, had exactly 96 new wells supplying water at latest reports...
...Since distribution was inflexible in its demands of specific courses, it was out of gear with concentration. Under the new system, a man will not only have a free choice of a field of concentration but his efforts in this field will be directed and cumulative, and the principle of distribution will be flexible...
Into a beet field just off the racing course at Santa Ana, Calif, one day last week dived a big metal airplane in a swirl of black smoke. Plunking its belly down on the soft earth it suffered no more damage than a crumpled landing gear, dented fuselage, broken propeller. Cursing darkly, a handsome young man jumped out unscratchcd after having made the fastest flight in the history of landplanes...
Built with great secrecy at a cost of $120,000, Hughes's low-wing monoplane is equipped with a tremendous Wasp motor, a fuselage longer than the wingspan, a curious stilt-like landing gear which folds during flight. For two days Pilot Hughes had driven this big racer over the Santa Ana course. The first day he broke the landplane record with ease, lost the credit for it because of a technicality. The second day, he fulfilled all the requirements, had nearly finished when the mishap occurred. As he bent to inspect the damage, exuberant timers announced...