Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a tired group of Coach Dick Harlow's players trudged their way to the Lapham Field House to assemble their gear when the Bowl game was over, the band did not forget them. They assembled underneath the second story looker room and serenaded the gridders with their entire repertoire...
Germany has sent over some sleek hand-sized cars, some with gear shifts and brakes, and others with remote-control steering. But they are scarce; foreign toy imports so far this year have been less than $1,000,000. Trickiest U.S. model: an aluminum racer that runs more than 15 m.p.h. on compressed...
Automatic Pickup. General Motors' Buick division, which plans to make only minor body changes in its 1948 model due in January, still plans a major mechanical revolution. The '48 Buick Roadmaster, said the division, will have no clutch, clutch pedal, or customary gear shift. For normal driving, the motorist will merely have to push a button; the accelerator will do the rest. There is also a reverse gear and "emergency low" for snow and mud. With rising production and a backlog of 520,000 unfilled orders, Buick hopes next year to pass Plymouth, into third place behind Chevrolet...
Delegates who watched the National Student Association swing into high gear in the regional convention at Mt. Holyoke over the weekend told the Student Council last night that the N.S.A. "has a definite place in the New England scene and at Harvard...
Student Council administrative and investigatory machinery slid into high gear yesterday as President Edric A. Weld '46 appealed to the College for at least 120 men to execute a detailed program of activities blue- printed by the Council this fall...