Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dynamic last-minute rallies featured three intramural ballgames yesterday as the House League continued in high gear...
...world, and so late as 1935 its staff was confined to an executive secretary, an assistant and a clerk. But then its potentialities were grasped by the forward-looking Secretary of the Interior, the Hon. Harold L. Ickes, and after Pearl Harbor it began to move into high gear. On February 25, 1943, it was reorganized with a director [and] assistant, two grand divisions of five sections each, a staff of geographers and philologians, and a working force of 110 altogether. During the war years it naturally gave most of its attention to foreign place names, for the Army...
Courageously turning a deaf ear to rabid nationalists, and ignoring the outlawed Communists who cry out against Yankee imperialism, he pointed to the need for U.S. dollars to put Brazil's economic machine in high gear. He wanted laws that would open up the country to profitable exploitation by foreign capital...
Although Yale's set artist, Peacock, seems to have shifted into high gear, getting 20 points against Trinity Wednesday night, the Varsity high command feels the Elis' can't possibly equal last Saturday's one-out-of-two shot percentage. Probable Starting Lineups HARVARD YALE Hauptfuhrer rf Lavelli Rockwell lf Nadherny Prior c Joyce Gannon rg Redden Brady or Crosby lg Peacock
...died, Constable Edgar mumbled a name. Scotland Yard went into high gear: it cancelled all leaves, issued extraordinary (and temporary) permission for sleuths to carry guns. Four days later, the Yard's men tracked down suspected Burglar Donald George Thomas in a boardinghouse, arrested him for the murder of Constable Edgar...