Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moving into high gear one day after its opening meeting of the year, the Student Council and President Edric A. Weld, Jr. '46 yesterday launched a full-scale investigation into Freshman affairs with the establishment of a powerful new committee...
...late O. Henry (real name William Sydney Porter), father of the high-gear, machine-tooled short-short story, was finally honored with a tangible memorial in the home of his youth, but he had to share it with a salve manufacturer. The memorial: a reproduction, in the Greensboro, N.C., Historical Museum, of the drugstore where the writer (and the salve man) once worked...
Unencumbered. In St. Joseph. Mo., police pulled in Motorist Sherman Ethridge for driving around town with: 1) no lights, 2) no reverse gear, 3) no starter, 4) no brakes, 5) no registration, insurance nor driver's license...
...First Year. In Lisbon. Newlywed Francisco Carvalho fled to the airport, crawled into the landing gear housing...
Shinwell said that if these demands were granted now Britain's whole economic machine might be thrown out of gear. But Shinwell knew that he had to stay on good terms with Horner if any coal at all is to be mined. So Shinwell helplessly held out his hands, shrugged and said: "I come in a mood of appeasement...