Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Getting the jump on other league members, Lowell House has swung into high gear and is rounding into shape fairly rapidly. Much heavier than last term, the Bellboy team is packed with returning veterans, who in addition to going through conditioning exercises this week, have been working on their aerial attack in preparation for next Wednesday's opening game with the Eliot NROTC. Included in the long list of returning Lowell gridmen are 'Ayres, Brock, Harrison, Robb, Ryan, Sammond, and Sutton...
Franklin Roosevelt donned his blue-black Navy cape and his famed campaign hat-the gear in which he campaigned successfully into Terms I, II & III. Out of the White House garage came the huge black Packard touring car with the bulletproof windows. To the Secret Service went the order to mobilize all resources. Franklin Roosevelt had decided to campaign in the usual partisan sense...
...turned him against religion (his 4-D draft status is for ministers and divinity students), was held on $5,000 bail. The charges: 1) presiding over an unchartered college (whose West Coast mother institutions were non existent); 2) calling himself a medical doctor; 3) calling his high-gear sheepskin tannery a school of medicine...
...shift from Bradley's to Hodges' command was made in mid-battle, without the grating of a gear. The battle plan for the Saint-LÔ breakout was Bradley's, but from there on the tactical decisions were up to Hodges. When Hodges took over, the First had two complicated plans to work out : 1 ) to slug in and carve a corridor for Patton's tanks to slip through, then hold the German counterattacks and keep the corridor open; 2) using its own armor, to swing a right hook to form the first trap...
...verse of a parody of Casey Jones which China-Burma-India pilots sing: Old 87 was a pile of junk After too many hours over the Hump With her flap handle busted And her gear stove in And a great big dent in her vertical...