Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This is not to say," he warned "that colleges should submit blindly to the current social opinion of the moment. They should gear their work to the needs an ideal society. It is their job to be always critical of society as if is at present, and to teach an educated group of men and women who shall be able to judge their environment, and change it for the better...
With Brendon Reilly hurling effectively for the whole seven innings and baffling the opposition with six hits, while striking out thirteen batsmen, the Crimson attack went into high gear, garnering a total of nine hits which produced 11 runs...
General MacArthurs first task was to organize an effective command system. It was no easy job. He had to gear himself to the United Nations' central headquarters in Washington (TIME, March 30) and to a new Pacific War Council which the President created in Washington this week, with equal representation for Australia, New Zealand, China, Canada, the U.S., Britain. He had to find adequate use for the talented, familiar staff which he brought with him from the Philippines* without offending the hospitable but proud Aussies...
...centrifugally cast barrels burst at 9,000 to 10,000 lb. "Moreover," said a Ford engineer last week, "$10,000 worth of centrifugal dies will turn out as many cylinder barrel blanks as a $110,000 forging hammer." Landing gear for bombers is also centrifugally cast by Ford...
...team came out on the floor for the second period with the score reading like a track meet at 34 to 12, the well-oiled Harvard team started to run in a little lower gear as the Quakers took advantage of numerous Crimson lapses to raise their total higher than it should have been...