Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because landing gear cuts down speed and range, the Navy plans to fly the Akron's brood without gear in time of war. When operating on the high seas, both wheels and pontoons would be equally useless in a forced water landing. Unless they can reach a friendly shore and make a fishtail landing, pilots unable to return to Mother Akron will be counted as lost...
...Theological Seminary, Professor John Livingston Lowes of Harvard, Peter Moore Speer, vice president and general counsel of Standard Oil Co. of N. Y., the late Episcopal Bishop Coadjutator David Hummell Greer of New York, the late Senator Matthew Stanley Quay of Pennsylvania. W. & J. students are fond of virile gear such as corduroys and sturdy boots. Most of them like their new President Hutchison because, though he has no hobbies, no sports, he shows an earnest, agreeable interest in their games. In recent college elections the non-fraternity students won a sweeping victory. President Hutchison, a Sigma Alpha Epsilon, expressed...
Just so much grit in so many gear-boxes are most themes in most novels. A brilliant exception to this rule is Author Christiansen's Inter-Scandinavian prize novel Two Living and One Dead. So dextrously is its theme amalgamated with its characters that readers will find it impossible to formulate the one without telling the whole story of the others...
Publisher Peck, while continuing to move among Brooklyn aristocrats in town and out at Locust Valley, decided to gear his paper to the white-collar middle class, and he proceeded to pour money into it. He made the Times a typical "home"' paper, unsensational, non-crusading, bursting with local news and civic pride. He initiated a costly carrier delivery service, then an innovation in Greater New York (since copied by other Brooklyn papers). In less than ten years the Times reached 100,000 circulation. The Eagle still has more than twice as much advertising, but last year it lost...
Henry Ford made the first automobile which could go a mile-a-minute. Its name was 999. It had spindling wire wheels, an exposed engine, a radiator which looked like part of an egg crate and perpendicular steering gear, like a truck. To get it started, the manifold had to be warmed with a blow torch. The November day in 1902 when 999 made its stupendous record at Grosse Pointe, Mich., the young man who drove it sat on a high open seat wearing a heavy double-breasted coat. His face, protected by goggles and deprived, by a windmask...