Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about the Geneva disarmament conference look for limitation rather than any wholesale abondonment of armaments after 1932. Progress toward world peace through diplomatic negotiations seems to have halted, temporarily at least with the signing of the Kellogg Pact. Since political machinery for assuring peace will run only in low gear, new plans for preventing war have a special interest. Such a plan has been put forward by the "Youth's Peace Federation" which hopes to organize nation-wide resistance to military service...
...Berry is as vast and impressive as a Wagnerian tenor, especially when, of a winter day, he puts on his dirty-whitish, reputedly polar-bear coat. Floppy, capacious tweed knickerbockers are his usual gear and sometimes (in his official capacity at a track meet) he achieves a novel effect by adding to the ensemble a tailcoat & white tie, twirling in his hand a big gold-knobbed baton. Appearances of this sort, however (say Cornellians) reveal only one-third of his personality. In his office he is irascible, sometimes making helpless undergraduates wonder why they have put up with...
...behavior of little Simeon Davison Fess, national G. O. P. chairman. He rushed to the White House to say good-bye to President Hoover. He came out declaring: "The time has come when we must let the country know. . . . In other words, we are going into high gear...
...master of the craft outlined six definite purposes of this summer's cruise. The vessel and her gear will be tested out. Practical experience as to the functioning of the scientific equipment under the conditions of the sea will be gained. Tow net work at depths of 1,000 to 2,000 fathoms will be done. Knowledge about the migrations of microscopic plant life and their relation to light intensity will be acquired. Temperature and salinity observations will be made to help the study of water circulation in the North Atlantic. Meteorological observations will be taken to assist in plotting...
...Machine. An autogiro has a fuselage and tail surfaces like that of the conventional airplane; also it has the usual motor & propeller in its nose, and uncommonly wide landing gear. But in place of a wing is an abortive stub with upturned tips, affixed as on a low-wing monoplane, to provide lateral stability, to carry the ailerons and to provide a mounting for the undercarriage. The real supporting surfaces (i. e. wings) are embodied in four great rotating blades, or vanes, affixed to an upright tripod. It is this rotor that gives the ship its windmill appearance and that...